Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spain was weltering last week in a revolution which experts had to certify as absolutely Grade A. Its authentic qualities of mass upheaval reduced to secondary stature both the government leaders and the revolutionary generals. The Spanish Government, a regime of Socialists, Communists and rattlebrained Liberals had emptied the jails of cutthroats to defend itself and swell what could be called "forces of law and order." These forces included an indefinite part of the Army. Other Army units had gone over to generals of loosely Fascist forces in which were scrambled most of the Spanish Foreign Legion, parts...
Last week in Manhattan, Osteopath Perrin Thacher Wilson of Cambridge, Mass., reported that for 35 years he has cured facial neuralgia by repositioning the mandibular joints. Whereas Dr. Costen uses dental crutches to realign the jaws, Dr. Wilson wriggles them into position by repeated osteopathic manipulation...
...cloverleaf detours at every intersection; 3) denial to abutting property of direct access to the highway; 4) acceleration and deceleration lanes for fast and slow traffic. All four forms of friction are largely cured by these four elements. But few roads exemplify them all. One example is the Worcester (Mass.) Turnpike. It used an abandoned trolley right-of-way. Even so, the elaborate structure cost $239,000 per mile. This tremendous expense, dwarfing ordinary figures, is an effective hitch in the program. It will take years to create the 12,000 miles of such superhighways which are vitally needed today...
...Cannon relates wonders in the East which make the notorious rope trick (an illusion, according to him, produced by mass hypnotism) seem like small potatoes. Examples...
...Charles Williamson Clarke, who spent nearly three years on the Ringling case. "Mr. John" says Revenuer Clarke now knows more about the circus business than he does. Since last year Assistant U. S. Attorney James Randall Creel in Manhattan has been preparing the 400 pages of indictments and the mass of evidence to be used when the case goes to trial. Prosecutor Creel has also become something of a circus expert, though at Harvard (Class of 1927) he won a prize for a thesis on "The Monism of William James As Contrasted with the Tychism of Other Modern Philosophers...