Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lampoon cartoon entitled "Curley Addresses His Puritan Ancestors" as illustrative of how Harvard felt toward the "ordinary man" (His Excellency acting in the capacity of "ordinary man") he went on to quote the remarks of a Square merchant in Friday's Crimson on President Roosevelt's ride down Mass Avenue...
President-elect Wriston married a gracious Vassarette named Ruth Colton Bigelow of Springfield, Mass., has a daughter at Oberlin, a son at Appleton High School. He also has a black cocker spaniel named Robin, a desk exactly like George Washington's, a sizable collection of phonograph records ranging from Gilbert& Sullivan to Bach. He invariably reads while shaving. He will turn up in Providence for the second semester...
...diameter, about 7 ft. long. The gun is then sealed and steam introduced until the pressure is 1,200 Ib. per sq. in. Softened, the wood becomes so saturated with steam at that terrific pressure that when the gun is "fired" the wood simply explodes, leaving a mass of brown fibre...
Grocer's Friend. Thus illuminated by the glow of 65,000 candles was the career of a onetime Chicago accountant named J. (for Joseph) Frank Grimes. Accountant Grimes grasped the idea that the essentials of chainstore distribution- mass buying, good merchandising-were not inseparable from the chainstore setup. In 1926 when the grief of independent grocers and wholesalers over chainstore competition was deepest. Accountant Grimes founded IGA. His accounting partners, William W. Thompson and Louis G. Groebe, became IGA secretary and treasurer, respectively. With a firm of advertising and merchandising experts they set up an organization to service retail...
...fallacies underlying the idea that the defeated force can be made to pay the cost of War. While he discounts lurid stories of wholesale destruction, Professor Knight leans to the theory that the next war, like the last, is likely to be a war of positions, fought with deadlocked mass armies, and consequently more costly in terms of human life than the last. With no concrete solution to offer, he nevertheless suggests that his theoretically powerful audience can prevent war if the desire to do so is genuine. If it does not do so, he announces with ferocious urbanity, "Sirs...