Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Northampton, Mass...
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...sees the solution as coming from more and not less of this sort of action: "The problem of the University is not to disassociate itself and its members from society in order to avoid attack, but rather to play a larger and more direct role in mass social life with wisdom, courage, temperance, humility, and understanding." He says this might be the test of whether culture can operate successfully in society as a whole...
...even better illustration of this belief is Wellman's own career. Respectably reared in quiet Brookline, Mass., he left high school to sell chocolates and woolen goods, failing miserably at both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when...
...years before the Civil War, Amory Houghton invested his money in a glass factory at Somerville, Mass. Eleven years before the turn of the century Michael Owens, tired of blowing glass with his lungs, invented a machine to do it for him. From Houghton's investment grew Corning Glass Works; from Owens' invention, Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Last week, after seven years' experimenting, these two famed oldsters fostered a wonder-child-Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., the first U. S. glass company devoted to the manufacture of textiles...