Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reaches the conclusion that too many Freshmen feel urged to participate in organized sports and try to "make the team", often hurriedly, and perhaps in some cases inadvisedly. As is usually the case when many are called, but few are chosen, the subsequent cutting of squads unloads a large mass of men totally undecided what to do from then...
...miracle in selecting and arranging the veritable mountains of material he had at his disposal. From her infant days Miss Lowell preserved her diaries, her books, her themes; and there are even paper-dolls available for those who wish to study the origins of genius. The immense mass of her correspondence is but the center of a vast collection of biographical data; every scrap of print about her that clipping bureaus could furnish--and for a dozen years her name was always copy--is carefully preserved. In view of this profusion, it is to the biographer's credit that...
...Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored 2,250 mi. of coastline, discovered an island which was called Charcot Land, gathered a mass of meteorological, geological and biological material, made hundreds of deep-sea soundings...
Last week even readers with no great sentiment for Wall Street's old bulls felt the poignancy of these headlines. In 1886, when Henry Ford was sawing wood on his father's farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which...
...noon, massed along the hill streets and in front of Har-Brack Union High School, the crowd watched Allegheny's workers parade in white shirts and black ties before a reviewing stand while five bands and two bugle corps raised Tarentum's roofs. By 2 p. m. the Har-Brack athletic field was filled with citizens who overflowed the bleachers, stood on the baseball diamond. On a platform draped with flags sat the guest of honor, surrounded by friends and microphones. Over a national hookup flowed the public voices of Lowell Thomas, Ford Bond, John B. Kennedy...