Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Education, but actually he was neither its first philosopher nor its first schoolmaster. First great modern philosopher was Rousseau, who, in Emile (1762), advocated a child-centred school. First Progressive-school system in the U. S. was started in 1875 by the late Colonel Francis Wayland Parker in Quincy, Mass. Last week in Manhattan was celebrated the Goth anniversary of the second, the Ethical Culture School, founded in 1878 by Felix Adler...
...meeting of the First District Dental Society of the State of New York, two brothers, Lieutenant Leland James Belding, a Navy physician, and Paul H. Belding, a Waucoma, Ia. dentist, claimed to have confirmed the belief that diet and caries are related. Backing their conclusions with a mass of laboratory detail gathered over a period of twelve years, they declared that the cause of caries was not candy but certain "fractions" of wheat, corn and oat products, that these ferment in the mouth, and are transformed by a germ-which they christened Streptococcus odontyliticus (tooth dissolver)- into an acid which...
Thus last week ended the Eighth National Eucharistic Congress of U. S. Roman Catholics. At the four-day meeting in New Orleans were most of the U. S. hierarchy, thousands of priests and laity. The weather was persistently bad. Once the rain poured down during an open-air mass which could not be interrupted, and which ended with a blessing broadcast from Castel Gandolfo by Pope Pius...
...things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says Mr. Arvin, not only because he was too hardheaded to accept the "lovable insanity" of their more extravagant plans, but because he would not be anything that made him different from the vast mass of plain people. He was no Abolitionist, because of his almost mystical veneration for the Union...
...daughter of "Syd" Farrar, who played first base for the old Phillies, Geraldine was born in the little town of Melrose, Mass. In Manhattan, where she went to study, she was offered a chance to sing small parts at the Metropolitan. But Soprano Farrar wanted a big chance; she refused, went to Europe to continue her studies. At 19 she was already an admired figure in European opera. At the Metropolitan, when she returned famous, she rubbed arias for 16 consecutive seasons with such famed songsters as the late Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti, she sang some 29 roles, played...