Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naples. In a small phial in a Catholic chapel in Naples abides a red substance which all the faithful recognize as the congealed blood of St. Januarius. Twice a year the clotted mass dissolves-usually in May and September. Last week Crown Prince Humbert appeared in Naples for a day. The blood dissolved. Newspapers printed extras. The populace saw heavenly favor for the Prince...
Entered for the Grand National Handicap was Whitefoot, holder of the world's record of 11 2/5 sec. for 200 yd. (owner: James Gilligan, Lawrence, Mass.) The winner was Lion, a dun streak from Dalton, Mass., owned by P. A. and J. B. Draper, which went...
Title distribution by colleges, Yale 9, Princeton 8, Harvard 5, Pennsylvania 5, Columbia 4, California 4, Syracuse 3, Cornell 2, Dartmouth 2, Mass. Inst. of Tech. 2, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Maine and Bowdoin, 1 each When the first I. C. A. A. A. A. meet was held in Saratoga in 1876 the athletes turned in meritorious performances considering the lack of background they possessed. There is little to prove whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot...
...recent meeting of the Phillips Brooks House Association Cabinet, sixteen men were chosen to make up the Harvard Northfield Committee, which has as its primary duty the organization of a group to go from the University to the Northfield Conference. This Conference will be held at East Northfield, Mass., from June 16 to June...
...Okop is the oldest. Its walls are thicker, the whole construction of its buildings is heavier. When the Mayas first began to build they knew little about the laws governing thrust and strain. Their earliest two-story buildings have the second story set behind the first on a solid mass of masonry. They dared not put one room directly above another. Later they learned how to do this and the development of their skill can be traced through buildings of successive periods...