Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from New York to Princeton on the special boat would cost $13.90 as compared with $27.62 by the normal avenues of travel, a saving of almost one half. Also an attempt is being made to have the University Band on board to work up enthusiasm and pep for a mass meeting to be held on board the boat Friday night...
...Manhattan on Nov. 2, Mr. Harding's birthday. Said he, none too steadily: " I couldn't go to such a meeting and say anything . . . Some time, probably after I leave this office, I am going to write the story of Warren G. Harding. I have a mass of material-letters, documents, records -which I will use or turn over to whomever may be given the task of getting them into shape...
...that he had a great fortune in gold and who was always ready to lend to his neighbors, was disturbed by a visit from four masked bandits. Bonin refused to divulge the hiding place of his gold hoard and the bandits first beat him " until his body was a mass of blood and bruises," then broke his bones. The victim was reported unwilling to speak, so the bandits roasted him over a fire in the kitchen hearth; then left him for dead. Bonin was not dead! No trace of the inquisitioners was found...
...stop at Springfield, where the finest group of municipal buildings in the country is situated. Proceeding to Barrington, Vt., the party spent some time studying Mrs. William H. Walker's estate with its elaborate grounds and mansion in the Elizabethan style. From there the school went to stock bridge, Mass, where eight more estates were studied and sketched...
...mere drop in the bucket; while raising the import tariff on wheat would be like shutting out imports of dirt. There simply ain't no such animal. the reason for low prices is, as President Coolidge comprehends, the almost complete absence of a foreign market, and consequently a mass of grain, usually exported, tumbled upon home consumers...