Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canadian Voice. The Vice Chancellor of Oxford University sat attentively in a reserved seat, surrounded by the more or less hoary Doctors, Proctors and Heads of Houses. Supported in the rear by a begowned mass of the lesser learned, Sir Robert Falconer, President of Toronto University, delivered a professorial lecture...
...spiritual life. She was credited with saying that "God would permit her to remain on earth until the end of time"; that she "would spend her Heaven on earth doing good"; that she would "let fall a shower of roses." After these things was she forgotten by that great mass-the outside world...
Died. Miss Amy Lowell, 51, famed poet, essayist, critic and biographer of Keats (TIME, Mar. 2) ; in Brookline, Mass., of a paralytic stroke...
...CRIMSON on last Saturday, May 16, in which the methods and manners of Oxford tutors were described with kindly justice by Dr. Brinton. His rapid and clear survey gives a vivid picture of Oxford life and it is a considerable achievement to have simplified without distortion the mass of inconsistencies and inefficiencies which is Oxford. I can only recall one neater sketch. It is this...
...group of 18, at Pearl Harbor, having a capacity of 150,000 barrels each, were the biggest tanks in the world. One of them was half filled. The other 17 were dry as the widow's cruse, were rapidly deteriorating into a useless mass of rust. Admiral McDonald, Commandant of the Pearl Harbor Naval District, admitted that corrosion had developed in at least one case to the depth of 3/16...