Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through a siege of 125 days in the Carlist War of 1874. What made their chances blackest was an almost total lack of airplanes to oppose the German bombers of General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised to repeat that mass bombing of a civil population there would be no way of stopping him. Reconnoitering on the Basque Front, 18 Rightist planes became lost in fog, came down perforce in southern France. Allowing them to return, French authorities recorded officially for the first time how preponderant in Spanish skies...
...separate them into two one-year courses? They would both take at least 8 hours a week of laboratory work and would preferably not be taken simultaneously. The chemical course would be of slightly broader scope than the present Chemistry 4, having one or two group experiments involving mass spectra and spectroscopy, and the lecture material might cover more advanced methods of analysis than laboratory facilities allowed in practical work...
...Mass meetings are significant when and only when they hit the top in newspapers publicity. This and this alone in is the fundamental powers of the peace rallies which chronically afflict the campuses of universities throughout the country. They made the front pages. Of course, they never accomplish anything immediately tangible beyond the taking of an oath here and there never to fight and the dispatching of telegrams to congressmen, telegrams potent for their nuisance value. True, nothing ever happens beyond the yelling of many voices for peace. And it is probably also true as the cynic claims that those...
...Columbia and the young men of the United States are for peace or war or whatever they are for. When you poke fun at peace demonstrations, remember that. Remember that the student, whatever scorn or contumely be at times levelled at him, is in the minds of the mass of the citizenry most looked up to as a group. To the mass of citizenry if not to himself he is a hope for the future. Potentially he is beyond all other forces in contemporary America the strongest force in public opinion. When he articulates that's news. When he stages...