Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throroughgoing check of modern equipment". A far better way of checking the equipment is the quiet activity of Pan American Airways and the large domestic airlines, whose engineers fly thousands of miles a day trying out the same apparatus Miss Earhart uses and recording a mass of data under all sorts of conditions she cannot duplicate. No revolutionary invention will be tested on the hopscotch trip; what aviation may gain are the observations one woman in a large plane can jot down when she is not piloting, navigating, or working the radio. Since Miss Earhart started the flight on every...
...states have been removed as a result of the demagogic argument that any recognition of a difference in ability and training is 'undemocratic.' Any attempt to apply the selective principle in education, even with a generous scholarship policy, is branded as 'aristocratic,' while the uniform education of an undifferentiated mass of students is called democratic...
...views to 400 newspapers. A. P. W. Paper Co. (paper towels) is Babson-dominated, as is Gamewell Co., which makes fire and burglar alarms, signal systems, automatic sprinklers. Babson Institute is an endowed, non-profit-making business school with a 300-acre campus and ten buildings in Babson Park, Mass. where all Babson activities in Wellesley Hills are concentrated. The Institute now has 130 students including sons of President Benjamin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel, President Clarence Francis of General Foods Corp. and Vice President Thomas L. Smith of Standard Brands. Each student has space in the general office, where...
...Babson also winters in Florida, where, in addition to his southern Babson Park, he owns a 12,000-acre ranch. There a fortnight ago he wound up his annual winter business conference, which is a small edition of the conference he holds at Babson Park, Mass. in the autumn. It was at the 1929 autumn conference that he uttered his last warning about the impending stockmarket crash. Even Mr. Babson admits that he started calling the tragic turn several years before anything happened...
...sweltering August morning in Fall River, Mass. Some of the Borden household felt distinctly under the weather. Night before last both Mr. & Mrs. Borden had been violently sick; this morning Bridget, the maid-of-all-work, felt none too well. But they all got up as usual, went about their daily tasks. After breakfast 70-year-old Mr. Borden walked down town to do some business errands. Bridget, her first chores done, went up to her room to lie down. Mrs. Borden, 64 and fat, puffed up the front stairs to change the pillow slips in the spare room. That...