Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each tractor are daily handed to managers, who base pay bonuses upon mileage covered. New and improved methods of disking, plowing, seeding, harvesting, threshing have taken this farm far away from story book sentimentality and made it into a highly industrialized system operating with low cost, due to mass production methods...
...last Helen Park remembered. She had seen a notice that, for the best 250-word letter by a New England college student or graduate telling why he or she wanted to visit California, a free trip by air would be given by a Miss Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass. Helen Park could remember nothing of what she had written except the tremendous reason, "just for the ride." It was astonishing, disconcerting. . . . Helen Park took the fuming lady at her table...
...waitresses' dormitory at The Balsams they discussed the miracle far into the night. Who on earth was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Why should she be handing out free airplane trips to California? One alert girl remembered reading in the newspapers that a Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass., had just flown home from California with the pastor's assistant of the Second Unitarian Church of Salem, one James Luther Adams. Both passengers had been wildly enthusiastic about their jaunt. The newspaper, a local sheet, had called it "an important epoch in aviation history...
...suddenly find themselves exposed in a bright light of irony, but a light playing gently, warm with humor and comprehension. More extraordinary, the legendary figure of Andy Protheroe is so keenly and completely alive that it must irresistibly delight that growing herd whose sophistication includes an uninquisitive scorn of mass coeducation...
...plate and ladies' man (snake, fusser, petter, necker, lizard, sheik, as you will). He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience. MacNooder's political finesse is his, refined and extended even unto sorority elections. His rostrum is at the mass meeting, in front of the grandstand, on the Charleston floor...