Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large University which represents a fairly good cross-section of every type of persons and ideals there can exist war-minded men and peace-minded men. The militarists will attract no such large gathering as the pacifists, as was proved by the small gathering of the Boston mass meeting in Fenway Park two days...
...elaborate mock trial of Leon Trotsky, held in 13 sessions at Mexico City in March and April, at which Professor Dewey had presided. Object of the trial was to prove or disprove the accusations of treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading the trial was unduly influenced in Trotsky's favor, Author Carleton Beals, authority on Central America, resigned in disgust. By last week the committee had proved nothing...
...worst catastrophes in the world! The flames are 500 ft. into the sky. It is a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It is in smoke and flames now. Oh, the humanity! Those passengers! I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen! Honest, it is a mass of smoking wreckage. Lady, I am sorry. Honestly, I can hardlyק am going to step inside where I can't see it. Charley, that is terrible! Listen, folks, I am going to have to stop for a minute because I have lost my voice...
...began dropping out of the windows like peas from a collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes burned away, their skin and flesh in sizzling tatters...
...same curvature in a magnetic field produce a much thicker trail and are stopped completely at the first lead barrier, unlike the new particles, which pass through all. They cannot be neutrons (neutral particles) since they possess the same charge as the electron or the proton, although the mass is somewhere between these two. Therefore, concluded the investigators, they must be something new, and quite different...