Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican State Senators of Rhode Island who fled their state following a Democratic filibuster and a literal gas attack (TIME, June 30) were discovered just over the border at Rutland, Mass. They fled, according to their own account, in fear for their lives. One heroic Republican remained behind, risking sudden death, in order to bring up the question of no quorum, if the Democratic minority tried to do anything without them?tried for example to call a Convention for a new State Constitution in place of the present Constitution which gives the country districts (Republican) disproportionately large representation...
...that of a middle-aged woman and its nail had been carefully manicured. There was also-with calcined precious stones, the remains of burnt clothing, the buckle of the Tsarevitch's sword belt, military buttons, some portable icons, and other objects of piety- a shapeless little mass of human grease!" The Monarchists, headed by the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, however, declined to reveal the present resting place of the urns and all that could be obtained by diligent newsmen were multiplex corroborations of General Janin's tale. It has been rumored that the whole story of the ashes...
...until 1920 was much accomplished owing to the greater need for apparatus and divers at Scapa Flow. By that time the Laurentic had broken up and proved a mass of tangled ironwork. During 1920 only eight bars of bullion were recovered...
...month after the Methodist month of religious carnival at Springfield, Mass., the Executive Committee of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions assembled in Manhattan to fight the grim reality of a deficit. The Board was $2,225,000 in debt. The proposal to reduce its missionary work by 25% was promptly rejected. What to do? Up stood Dr. L. O. Hartman, Editor of the onetime Zion's Herald. He proposed that every member of the Board should give his gold watch to the cause. Luther B. Wilson, famed Bishop, at once saw the point. He took out his watch...
...statement giving the lie to an allegation that the smithy concerning which my father once wrote was situate in Newbury, England. Said I: 'As a child I was always perfectly familiar with the smithy down the street here at the corner of Brattle and Story Streets [Cambridge, Mass.], and never had any doubt but that it was the original of the poem. My father passed this smithy every morning on his walks to the Village. He never was in England for any sufficiently long period to pass any point, a smithy or other wise, for any considerable, consecutive number...