Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chronicle the rise of the animated cartoon, the quest for original drawings by the man most responsible for it will be about as difficult as it is now to locate additional authentic Rembrandts. Walt Disney has not drawn his own pictures for nine years. To turn out the mass production issued nowadays under his name, he would have to have 650 hands. And 650 hands he has. With slim, 36-year-old Walt Disney as the guiding intelligence, his smooth-working cinema factory produces an average of twelve Mickey Mouse films and six Silly Symphonies every year. Were Disney...
...performed by saying nine prayers or series of prayers, usually in hope of gaining special material or spiritual rewards. A perpetual novena is arranged by a church so that the devout may come in and make their nine devotions consecutively over a period of time. Catholics believe that these mass novenas are more potent than private ones. In Chicago last January a perpetual novena, the only one in the U. S. devoted to the Virgin Mary in her special aspect of "Our Sorrowful Mother," was begun at Our Lady of Sorrows Church. By last week, with 16,500 Catholics attending...
...Europe may be looked upon as a nucleus composed of individual protons, not, however, all of the same size or power, mixed up with a few neutrons of no charge and little mass. This is kept together by a strong force which prevents them flying apart, known as geography. This nucleus is not symmetrical as, included on its western edge, is a particularly powerful proton (Britain) that has 'wave characteristics' of a definite type peculiar to itself. In the south there is what might be called a neutrino (Italy). This has, some think, also wave mechanic aspirations...
...publishing year since 1929. There were 1,798 new novels, 610 biographies and autobiographies, 302 travel books, 991 new titles in the field of belles-lettres that includes poetry and criticism, 685 titles that came under the general head of politics, economics and the social sciences. In this enormous mass of bookssed, confusing...