Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-eight years ago a girl child was born in Ware, Mass., and christened Bertha Ethel. Her father was Charles Knight and her mother Cordelia Cutter Knight (the Cutter family came to Massachusetts in 1630). Little Bertha's brother is named Austin M. He is now a retired admiral. Her sister, Jessie L., grew up and married a widower named David Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council...
Kelly of Pa. (manager)............................ *McMillan of S. C. (manager) Fish of N. Y. (pitcher)...........................Gallivan of Mass. (pitcher) Appleby of N. J.....................................Somers of N. Y. Hogg of Ind.........................................Lanham of Tex. Bacharach of N.J....................................Wilson of Miss. Britten of Ill.................................... .Green of Fla. Morin of Pa.......................................Tydings of Md. Gorman of Ill.......................................Chapman of Ky. Updike of Ind. Crumpacker...
...rasping. A six-inch triangle lay loose, like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass came loose like a slab of stale custard...
...middle-aged citizen of Massachusetts, having residence in a suburb of Boston. His hair is greying. He has had to adopt spectacles. He likes work and he likes peace. Lately he was called to serve on a jury that was to decide whether or not the Mayor of Chelsea, Mass., and 13 others were guilty of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Unlike many citizens Mr. Conant did not wiggle out of his manifest duty. He was impaneled with eleven others, who elected him their foreman. For six weeks the trial continued. In the end, only...
Divorced. Rockwell Kent, 44, famed U. S. painter-author-traveler, by the onetime Miss Kathleen Whiting of Lanesboro, Mass.; at Nice, France...