Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowships totalling $5,600, for Chinese studies, to Paul K. Benedict 3G, of Poughkeepsic, N. Y.; Francis W. Cleaves 4G, of Needham Beights, Mass.; John A. Pope 3G, of Detroit, Mich.; and Edwin O. Reischauer 6G, of Iogimachi, Tokyo-fu, Japan...
...There are men in mass production industries appealing for admission to the American Federation of Labor now. Up to this time I have said no. But the clock has struck and the hour is here. We are going to give them a home in the American Federation of Labor if they will come...
Vittorio wrote his first symphony as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Last summer he completed a Requiem Mass for his mother. At its world premiere in Vienna last week, the performers alone would have made it notable. A chorus from the Society of the Friends of Music united with the Wiener Sängerknaben Choir to sing with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. As leading soprano, Dusolina Giannini soloed eloquently for her dead mother...
They opened another bridge in California last week. At 6 a. m. when a foghorn snorted, 18.000 people started a mass dash, each eager to be first across the Golden Gate between San Francisco and the Marin County mainland. By nightfall 178,000 had crossed on foot and each apparently had been first in "one way or another. Sprinter Donald Bryant was first man across. Esther & Ann Bullard were first twins. Carmen & Minnie Perez were first skaters. Florentine Calegari was first on stilts. A Scottie was first dog. Police rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue...
...Public School Murder was the name of a book which youthful Headmaster Elliott Speer loaned in 1934 to Dean Thomas Edwin Elder of the Mount Hermon School for Boys at Northfield, Mass. In the story, the victim was killed by a prowler who fired a gun through a window...