Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following quotations, culled hastily and at random from the mass of essays submitted in the Crimson's prize essay contest, which closes today at 5 o'clock, give an indication of the variety of subjects touched upon in the contributions received...
...Frank W. Stearns leased a 6½ acre estate at Swampscott, Mass., for the summer. It was press-hinted that the President would spend at least part of the summer there...
Facing the microphone last week, her ample form clad in costly fabrics and bedecked with jewels, she sang most appropriately like a nightingale while a vast mass of British, overestimated at 10,000,000, postponed their bedtime story to listen to the sob-strains of The Last Rose of Summer...
Willard Metcalf, 66, was born in Lowell, Mass., apprenticed when 17 to a wood-engraver, later to one George L. Brown, landscape artist of South Boston, in whose service he got up at six o'clock, walked ten miles to work, swept out the studio, built the fire. Saving his pennies, he got together enough to go to Paris where, it is said, he lived on "three cents a day" studying under Boulanger and Lefebvre. Occasionally he sold a picture. In 1888, one of his paintings was hung in the Salon. Tired of his poverty, he left Paris, became...
Beebe reported continuous rough weather. He described taking his first specimens of marine surface-walking insects-a Sargassum fish with fins like hands-and a mass of its eggs which are now hatching in the aquarium of the Arcturus. In spite of the weather, bottom dredging was possible to a depth of three miles. A half-inch cable, containing seven strands of 19 wires each (133 wires in all), was paid out from the drums for three hours, while the steamer drifted in the trough of the swell. The steamer proceeded at about three knots an hour. It then required...