Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands. Ask any child in the street what he is going to do with his pistol, and he says 'I'm going to kill you.' Other pernicious forms of war toys are the trench games that teach children how to send troops over the top in mass formation...
...nation", continued the speaker, who has attained a high degree of prominence in Europe as a student of the modern drama particularly, "but rather a group of 65 million people striving for individualism. To bind this mass the German government acts as a huge vise. This lack of community spirit is due largely to the 27 political parties which flourish in Germany today and to the large number of religious creeds. The dominant note is so largely that of individualism that there are no social sciences taught in the schools and universities. The watchword of the German social life today...
Following is an except from The Cornell Sun: "Such an injection of culture in an American university is a refreshing indication in this day of the 'mass production' tendency in the educational methods of this country. Harvard is fortunate, indeed, in being able to anticipate not only the coming of a great figure in the world of literature, but also the adding of a further facility for furthering the ends of true culture...
Last week in Cambridge, Mass., Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University announced the Harvard Advertising Awards...
Last week there was a strange and exciting scene in the quiet hamlet of Middleboro, Mass. Snorting, kicking, bunting, bugling, a herd of over 400 wild elk entered town. There were other elk in the vicinity and these the newcomers soon joined. They had traveled across the continent, all the way from Moiese, Mont. (Flathead Indian Reservation), in 70 hours, riding in specially constructed, electrically lighted express cars. Their total carfare amounted to $14,000. Everyone of the bulls had been dehorned before being shown to his stall, for the comfort of his fellow passengers and the conductors...