Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Williamstown, Mass., 200 persons, including not a few personages (TiME, July 28), were ushered to seats of privilege in Chapin Hall. There was just room for them all. Some were bearded, some were bald; all looked interested. They were the chosen few of more than 1,000 who had applied to Chairman Harry Augustus Garfield, President of Williams College for membership in the fourth annual session of the Institute of International Politics. How, why, by whom the 200 were selected were matters for conjecture. But there they sat, wise men from far and near; and Dr. Garfield mounted the platform...
Climbing slowly to the dizzy height of the upper span while the breathless crowd watched in an agony of suspense, the man poised for a fleeting second and then plunged into a mass of correspondence which had accumulated during his absence. An immediate blood transfusion was decided...
...Solemn sessions were held for five days, much was discussed. Chief attention was given to experiment and new development in education−a day to "the newest methods in the training of teachers," a day to the Dalton System (mode of secondary education, perfected by Miss Parkhurst of Dalton, Mass.). Eminent literary men delivered addresses on "English as a Bond of Empire." At one of the sessions, Alfred Noyes, poet and former lecturer at Princeton University, presided...
...then went to his father's country home at Gloucester, Mass., set up his experimental laboratory on a high bluff. Soon he had developed a means for radio control of a boat at sea. The perfection of this invention covered a period of years, but is now practically perfect. He applied the same principle to a torpedo and developed one that could be steered at will at a speed of 50 mi. an hour on the surface, or 27 mi. submerged. It was in this connection that he developed a type of non-interferable radio transmission. Several foreign Governments...
Edward A. Filene's remarks before the Advertising Convention, London, made a particularly deep impression upon it. In Mr. Filene's opinion, mass-production, as now developed almost everywhere in the world, is bound to lead to mass-selling, which is dependent upon advertising. As proof of his contention, he stated that in the United States, about $628,000,000 was spent in advertising during...