Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claiming that social security is becoming more and more necessary as the mass of unemployed increases and the number of people over 65 grows larger due to the longer span of life, three Debating Council representatives met a team from the Quinn Society over WNAC at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in a no-decision debate...
...Amherst, Mass...
TIME, March 9, described an exceptionally strong boy from Massachusetts. The article closed with the following: "The family have not decided whether to send him to Temple University in Philadelphia or to Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass. Since he prefers exercise to study, they agree that, like Professor Rogers, he should become a teacher of physical education...
Primitive science consists of a great mass of observed facts, a great number of attempts to connect one with another. But the connections (theorems) themselves have little interconnection. It is as if each existed in a different world, or as if the world itself had no logical unity. To a scientist this is repugnant. He accepts on faith that the world is a harmonious whole; he may choose any way he wishes to connect different phenomena; if he chooses the right one it will fall into place as naturally as a word in a puzzle, and no conceivable experiment will...
...other words, assembling a great mass of observed facts and stirring them around until a connecting theory emerges does not work. Speculation and intuition are supremely necessary. What sets Dr. Einstein apart is the quality of his intuition. There have been abler mathematicians than he. But from a very few observations-the constancy of light's speed in space and the equivalence of gravitational mass and inertia-he divined how the cosmos was made. He did not, like Newton, invent mathematics to describe it but borrowed the mathematics of Riemann, Fitzgerald, Lorentz and Minkowski...