Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sandstone on the bank of the Connecticut River near Holyoke, Mass., Professor Edward Hitchcock of Amherst studied some curious footprints which had been called to his attention, advanced the theory that they were those of huge prehistoric birds. That was in 1858. Later scientists definitely attributed the tracks to Triassic dinosaurs of various sizes and unknown species. Some 20 individual prints were visible, ranging in length from three to 18 inches. The biggest tracks and the longest strides indicated that the largest lizard was 25 ft. long. The trustees of Massachusetts Public Reservations bought the surrounding land from its owner...
...virtues of all the pictures made in any given year, Love on the Run should win it. From the first word in its title to the last shot on the screen, of Crawford kissing Gable, it represents a kind of bright, composite photograph which, for historians, might be labeled Mass Entertainment 1936. Important only to historians, the median 1936 cinema should please the average 1936 cinemaddict. Average shot: Franchot Tone telling Joan Crawford a knock-knock: "Machiavelli good suit...
...still an enthusiastic Reserve Corps Major, much in demand as a speaker in Red Cross drives. He likes to recall that some of the U. S. officers for whom he held services considered him "the toughest-looking member of the unit." Holding pastorates in New Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic cop on the motorcycle squad. Because he was also offered the chance to drive a hook & ladder truck, Churchman Wilkinson was mildly sorry that Boston's firemen did not join the strike...
...money is backing us. What does it say in the Bible-Carry neither purse, nor scrip? Churches are necessary, but Christianity is too big to be confined to churches alone." The church which confined Baptist Whitelock to his itinerant preaching in the summer was Horace Memorial in Chelsea, Mass. Before resigning as its pastor he mounted its pulpit one Sunday last month, began preaching a stock sermon which he continually revises and brings up to date...
Having brought back alive three Komodo dragons from the Dutch East Indies (TIME, May 21, 1934), two young Harvardmen and amateur naturalists. William Harvest Harkness Jr. of Manhattan and Lawrence T. K. Griswold of Quincy, Mass., set out in the autumn of 1934 after still rarer game-the giant panda of western China. No white man had ever seen this curious creature until a French missionary chanced on one in the late 19th Century. First white men to shoot one were Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt, in 1929. No giant panda had ever been brought out alive...