Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless the Detroit church invitations were withdrawn in accordance with the Board of Commerce's admonitions. Further, the local Y. M. C. A. canceled President Green's Sunday talk before a Y. M. C. A. mass meeting, because his presence might hamper the collections of their $5,000,000 building fund subscriptions...
...have established chamber music within earshot of the very lobbies of Congress and actually under federal patronage was a feat for no ordinary woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfield. Mass., and Washington is certainly unique. Discerning travelers along the road from bustling Pittsfield to smart Lenox, Mass., cannot have failed to learn that the considerable eminence known as South Mountain, by which they must pass, is mostly Mrs. Coolidge's property; that the spacious house on its summit is hers. The smaller white stone building on the mountain's slope is where, seven years ago, she housed...
...extinct and vanishing species: the sturgeon and condor; an oil field that yielded 2,000 sabre-tooth tigers; peregrine falcons nesting in a skyscraper cornice; swarms of alewives (herring) rushing up a factory creek to spawn. Mr. Sharp has the faculty of reproducing backgrounds, from his native Hingham, Mass., to the swinging chain of peaks around Los Angeles. Every season is his favorite, every district full of won- der. A chapter called "The Wildness of Boston" reveals foxes and deer within sight of the city clock...
...Purple advance by intercepting a pass. A Crimson offence ended in a fumble, and a few moments later Pratt and Kilgour broke through and blocked a kick which Pratt recovered on the two-yard line. Miller drove with terrific power into the middle of two lines heaped in the mass and succeeded in moving the obstruction enough for the touchdown. Sayles again booted the goal, ending the scoring for the first half...
...saying, Mr. Gibson produced an impressive array of mass games, competition games, stories, sleight-of-hand tricks, easy dramatic performances, and a listed series of outdoor activities to illustrate his statement...