Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
BARNSTABLE, Mass.--The sum of $150,000 was left to Harvard University under the will of Mrs. Margaret W. Jewett which was filed for probate here...
Though no acknowledgment of source is made, The Primrose Path strikes many a playgoer as a dramatization of Victoria Lincoln's popular novel, February Hill (1934). First mentioned for production by Sam H. Harris in 1935, the play went unproduced for three years, after a Fall River, Mass, woman, charging that February Hill maligned members of her family, sued Author Lincoln for $100,000. So far the case has not come to trial...
From the U. S. Public Health Service last week came a new, streamlined mass-production method of culturing Rickettsia prowazeki. Bacteriologist Herald Rea Cox of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory at Hamilton, Mont., announced that he had injected the yolks of fertile, six-day-old chicken eggs with viruses of typhus fever as well as those of the related Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which occurs chiefly in Western States...
...years with a bimillennium exhibition of hard-bitten Roman portrait sculpture and charming Roman craftsmanship of the Age of Augustus (63 B.C.-14 A.D.). The Walker Galleries showed affectionately executed portraits by Durr Freedley, a quiet semiprofessional in the precise New England line, who died last year at Lexington, Mass. Most spirited post-Picasso lyricism of the season appeared at the Julien Levy Gallery in canvases by softspoken, curly-locked Abraham Rattner, who has lived in Paris since the War. A new C. I. O. sculptors' union exhibited honest work, good & bad, at the New School for Social Research...