Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this performance of the Mass is probably the finest that can ever be produced with human forces and consequent human imperfections. To play and sing the music must be a tremendous task; even to hear it is a harrowing experience. The vastness of the work removes it from ordinary life. Beethoven's method of worshipping God transcends all formal limits; to him the capability of his players and the capacity of his audience are both unimportant. Hence all the more honor is due the Glee Club, the Choral Society, and the Orchestra for reaching a new peak in their joint...
...jigsaw are such diverse unions as Mr. Lewis' essentially conservative United Mine Workers, Sidney Hillman's liberal Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Harry Bridges' radical International Longshoremen & Warehousemen, Joe Curran's turbulent National Maritime Union. Their common, immediate aim, to organize the mass production industries, holds them soundly together, but there are dissents within the whole. Last week one of these dissents popped to the surface when Vice Chairman Sidney Hillman called upon the delegates to adopt a new constitution which they had never seen...
...race against whom all had been done that could be done short of mass murder, the Berlin Zwoljuhrblatt screamed: "Woe to the Jews if another helper is paid or incited by them and raises his murderous hand against a German...
...English mass dailies still offer cheap accident insurance to subscribers, but last fortnight cut their top figure from ?5,000 to ?2,500 for railway victims. Subscribers killed in motor accidents get from...
...years The Great Nelson has done a balancing act supporting his entire body on two thumbs. Fortnight ago, in Brockton, Mass., he surpassed himself: supported his entire body on one thumb...