Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artificial lightning of 2,000,000 volts, twice the voltage ever before generated experimentally, and ten times greater than the highest voltage used in commercial transmission, was produced at a public demonstration in the Pittsfield (Mass.) laboratories of the General Electric Company, under the guidance of Giuseppe Faccioli, chief electrical engineer of the plant, and Frank W. Peek, Jr., consulting engineer, who invented much of the machinery involved...
...Institute of Politics, which will open at Williams College (Mass.) on July 27, will be addressed, for the first time, by a German. Count Harry Kreisler, Germany's first Minister to Poland and leader of the "Nie-Wieder-Krieg" demonstrations in Berlin, is the German representative. Viscount Birkenhead and Sir Edward Grigg, formerly political secretary to Lloyd George, will attend from Great Britain, and Canon Ernest Dimnet, professor in the College Stanislas at Paris, from France. Sir Paul Vinogradov, the eminent professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, formerly a resident of Moscow, will deliver a course of public lectures...
...admittedly not satisfactory to those cloistered persons who rejoice in the doctrinaire and who find satisfaction chiefly in the formulation of theoretical propositions. As to them let it be said at the outset that American labor's political policy was designed to satisfy the requirements of the great mass of wage earners of our country and that it is the outgrowth of their experience, study and observation. Any person who comes forward with a proposal that differs from their conclusions will have to prove to them that their conclusions are mistaken...
...maintained its established feature such as the regular lectures, the tea dances and formal affairs, the tennis, pool, and billiards tournaments, and the prize essay contest In addition to its own entertainments, furthermore, the Union has served for many other outside activities, like the University Teas, the athletic mass meetings, and the gatherings of countless clubs in the University...
...revolutionists represent no particular party. Roughly they might be specified as the Urbanites. Ostensibly they are the intellectuals of Bulgaria who have rallied to the standard of Professor Zankoff in Sofia, now their premier. But the most strident, if not the most numerous, ingredient of this conglomerate mass is the old pro-German, anti-Serbian group. And in this group lie germs of further Balkan troubles. The states which have hitherto been able to keep on good terms with Agrarian Bulgaria, and especially Serbia, will not look with pleasure on the advent of another party of such different standards...