Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enable the University to expand the scientific research work in forestry problems now being carried on at the University Forest at Petersham, Mass., an anonymous donor has made an offer, which has been accepted, of $100,000 for an endowment fund for the Forest...
PRINCETON, N. J., April 23.--Lord Robert Cecil, the leading English advocate of the League of Nations, and co-author of the covenant of that body, received the degree of Doctor of Laws at a mass meeting of students in Alexander Hall this afternoon. In a speech following the ceremony, Lord Cecil defended the League of Nations and also stated the responsibilities of the younger generation toward the prevention of wars...
...this objection, according to Mr. Hoover, " are the ones who would have complained on the Wednesday night of Genesis, and would have gone to bed with a grouch because the Creator had not yet made a finished job of the sun and the moon, and would have called a mass meeting on Thursday morning to demand more forward action...
...worked on railroads. He has washed dishes. He has been a political organizer and soap-box orator. He attended "Lombard College," where he was editor-in-chief of the undergraduate paper. Wide contacts with the facts of life have given him a love of people in the mass of crowds, of ugliness, of brutality. More than any other American poet, with his curious rythms sprung from Negro and Indian sources, with his slang and his brassy effects, he has, I believe, reached the heart of the American people. If you have never heard Sandburg sing folk songs of America, bending...
...less liable to exercise them in real life. What the Freudians call a " compensation mechanism " is set up by trashy literature which dissipates the energy of the impulses which might otherwise be seriously translated into action. Not that cheap reading is a cure for hysteria, for the great mass of people are probably irremediably twisted and warped emotionally by these complexes anyway, but it is rendered less intense and harmful. In fact, in a later essay Shaw has admitted that if the public appetite for murder, cruelty, romantic love and heroics were not stupefied from time to time by these...