Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prestige of President Kalinin with even "Political Boss" Stalin is due largely to his influence with the great mass of peasants and secondly to his long and impeccable record as a revolutionary. At 14 he began to work intermittently in a cartridge factory at St. Petersburg, during the slack winter season on his father's farm, and was almost at once fired with the pure flame of Revolution. His success in interpreting citified Marxian doctrines to peasant friends at home was phenomenal. Soon enough, however, the Imperial Police transformed his life into a long, incessant struggle punctuated with arrests...
...particles bumped into each other and many larger particles. Larger particles kept colliding until planetesimals developed. Planetesimals smashed into each other in such quantities that eventually Sun planets, including the Earth, acquired huge mass and the power to hold great satellites, like the Moon, in their own orbits...
...accoutrement for the Crimson team of 1881 consisted of high baseball shoes with leather strips on the soles, crimson stockings and jerseys, with a white canvas jacket over the jersey, and knee breeches that once had been white. There were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for mass play had not been invented. A few of the Harvard men went bareheaded while others wore crimson football caps of soft wool without visors; the Yale team wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...
...high spots which led to football chaos and the crisis of its existence during the closing years of the century was the "Flying Wedge" of 1892, the harbinger of a long line of momentum-mass plays ultimately to be legislated illegal. Following this for a number of years, the coaching brains of the country were concentrated in conceiving momentum and mass plays in which bulk and power were to accomplish what skill and artistry were to do in years to come. In 1893 the Crimson cohorts surprised the football world by taking the field in leather breeches...