Word: masses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with U. S. experts. At Cambridge, Mass, last fortnight Oxford-Cambridge swept the flat races as anticipated, added a victory in the shot put to beat Harvard-Yale, 7 first places...
Early last week rumors began flying in Williamstown, Mass, that President Tyler Dennett of Williams College was going to resign. Bristle-headed President Dennett, fishing at his camp near Lake George, N. Y., would not deny or confirm. Neither would Lawyer Bentley Wirt Warren, suave chairman of the finance committee of Williams' Board of Trustees. But when the story was published as fact by the Springfield Republican, President Dennett broke his silence to announce that for two weeks his resignation had been sealed, delivered, and accepted by the trustees to take effect Sept. i. "The sole issue between...
Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan...
...Holyoke, Mass., has a cleft palate himself, got into dentistry through his efforts to mend it. Covering the gap in the back of the mouth where the soft palate should be was his problem. Normally during speech the soft palate moves and forms a partition between the mouth and the cavity back of the nose (nasopharynx). Without it sounds reverberate through the nose. Artificial palates made of hardened rubber for the hard palate and soft rubber for the soft palate do not work well. Hinged artificial palates cause trouble...
...strike. Coaxed back to work in May, they are still sore, may strike again this summer. Majority of these mills are British, but one of the largest and most elaborate belongs to the big U. S. jute twine maker, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, whose main plant is at Ludlow, Mass. This company, which has been making jute products since the Civil War, now has assets of $25,700,000 and last year made a profit of $1,918,000. In the U. S. jute is one of the big four cordage fibres. Others: hemp, sisal, cotton...