Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass analysis, which was invented chiefly by Bjerknes, father and son, in Norway, in 1918, has received considerable attention in the U. S., both within and without the Weather Bureau since that time. It was used in forecasting for a model airway in California a decade ago by the U. S. Weather Bureau and Guggenheim Foundation, and has been employed a dozen years by the U. S. Navy. Thus although this method of forecasting has only recently been brought largely to the public notice, it was well known to meteorologists and used in this country long before 1932, the year...
Professor of Meteorology and Director Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory Harvard University Milton, Mass...
...they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized Labor. But the 600 cigar-factory girls who sat down for extra pay in Newark, N. J. had no union, did not want one. The seven Negro wet nurses who sat down...
Contrary to the theory advanced yesterday morning that Arthur J. Perkins, assistant University Janitor, was burned Monday night in a fire started by his pipe while asleep, it was learned last night that papers ignited by a dropped match caused the damage in his room at 1130 Mass. Avenue...
...course in marriage is needed in every college," he continued. Harvard, he believes, is no exception to this rule. Although undergraduates here have a background superior to that of many college students in the mass, this would only mean, in his opinion, that they are introduced rather sooner than some students to the complex expectations of marriage that result from advancement and culture...