Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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KING EDWARD VII, Vol. I-Sir Sydney Lee-Macmillan ($8.00). A detailed biography of King Edward as Prince of Wales (1841-1901), written from a mass of official information by the editor of the British Dictionary of National Biography, authorized by King George...
...regard it as too unimportant to matter. The Harvard club system is a strange creature. Evolution put the dinornis and the plesiosaur down and piled mountains above them. This other freak with gold feet may yet join them in innocuous extinction. But whether or not, the great mass of Harvard men will come and go and scarcely heed. Harvard's democracy is untrammeled, but it flourished anywhere at Harvard but in a clubroom...
...essay has been chosen from the mass of those submitted for no other reason than that it represents the general nature of the contest. In the future, other selected essays will be published anonymously...
Courts and juries are often enough criticized and surely with sufficient cause. But the problem is immensely complicated by public judgment. The accused can only have fair trial, when court decisions are made without reference to mass opinion which is formed solely on the evidence contained in meagre and occasionally garbled press reports...
...Nedell, who for some reason or other were white spats, aspired to be a second Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingford, and wrote home tales of amazing financial successes before these lucrative chicks had ever really hatched. The town on Lowe Falls, Mass., worshipped their here and budding millionaire and longed for his return. This was properly affected when his one time army buddy arrived with a perfectly respectable Rolls Royce, after having deposited his inebriated employer on a train for Providence. Just why anybody in such a condition should want to go to Providence is still a matter open to doubt...