Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth-shaking thud of thousands of large feet goose-stepping at Nürnberg; gargantuan mass drills with shovels, guns, artillery, war planes, brass bands, dumbbells; a solemn annual service for dead Nazi martyrs-these the world hardly noticed, for everywhere people asked "War?" and tried to read the answer in the Nürnberg speeches of Big Nazis...
...oscillations. Thus mathematicians hope to predict how the shape of an airplane wing will affect the motion of the wind. Next practical step would be designing of a wing for more speed, safety, lift. Application of the "ergodic" theorem has proved very useful, said Dr. Wiener, rushing into a mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems on turbulent motion still remain, but Wiener's enthusiasm for harmonic analysis was so intense last week that California Tech's famed Eric Temple Bell was moved to cry: "Who will...
...encourage the singing of opera in the English language (see above), 2) to support the development of small local opera companies throughout the U. S., 3) to pay more attention to music in the rural schools, 4) to help the growth of orchestral music 5) to encourage mass singing, 6) to further the observance of American Music Year (1938). "At a time when the whole world the seems to have gone mad," admonished the Federation's Chicago manifesto, "it particularly behooves such organizations as ours to try to keep sane...
Berkshire Chamber Music (Wed., Thurs., Fri. 4 p. m., CBS) in its 21st festival, from South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Performances by Pianists Jesús Maria Sanroma, Ernst Toch, Flutist Georges Barrère, the Roth String Quartet...
...under seven loosely knit corporations, no one of which held more than three stores. Under Florida's system of graduation, paying taxes on several small chains is small potatoes to paying on one large chain. The slipknot in his lashing was that he proudly advertised the "advantages of mass buying" for all 15 stores...