Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daughters of the American Revolution hissed and sputtered before and during their annual "congress" in Washington last fortnight, over a subject called "blacklisting," observers concluded that the cause of the trouble was a policy of the Daughters which had been chosen by their high officials without the untitled mass of the membership knowing or caring much about it. Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie of Cambridge, the Daughter who raised her voice against "blacklists," made little headway at the congress. She and her friends and their resolutions were soon silenced. The victory of President-General Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau and her sister...
...Like the delicately poised structure of a mighty cathedral is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Fittingly, his B Minor Mass was sung and played in magnificent St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan, by the Bach Cantata Club of New York. But the effect was diminished because the acoustics of churches in general, and of St. Thomas's in particular, are appalling...
...same time, in Cambridge, Mass., the team of ten Harvard seniors answered the same examination paper (in next year's tilt a Yale paper will be given to both teams). The Harvard men did their writing in a classroom along with 140 other students. The same rules applied, except that the Harvard team was not allowed to smoke. Seven members held scholarships; one, Richard T. Sherman of Algona, Iowa, had been editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson; another, Henry T. Dolan, suffering a fractured kneecap, took his examination in a hospital...
Last week, at Curtiss Field, Long Island, Bonney tested his finally completed Gull. It flew. For half a mile it traveled in a burst of speed. Bonney waved his arm in triumph. And then the Gull nosed down to earth and dived straight into the ground, a mass of wreckage. Bonney landed on his head 20 feet away, with only moments left to live...
...study of climates is necessarily extensive if there is to be any accuracy. Climatic conditions must be studied in detail, and the results tabulated and the maps filed. Each district has its distinctive data, and from the total mass of material accumulated from all the districts must be selected the significant. This is the cause to which Professor Ward is dedicating the Milton Fund award. No two men could possibly handle so great a quantity of work adequately; assistants are prerequisite, and for these assistants will the award be utilized. For the first time a field will be covered which...