Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lieutenants generally stage numerous frontier "incidents" which are supposed to show that the Führer's patience is being taxed by cruel treatment of his people in the territory he has his eye on. The Poles played the same game. When the German press described a "mass flight" of Germans from Polish "terrorism," Poles charged that hundreds of their citizens were being driven daily from Silesia and East Prussia...
...than the upper, upper middle and lower middle classes-and with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what they were getting per capita in 1927. Hence it can be argued that Naziism has a mass base, even though forced contributions (party dues, winter relief, etc.) subtract considerably from workers' incomes. The decline in quality is most noticeable in upper and middle class goods; working class goods are maintained in comparative quality and abundance. The German lower class diet, however, has always been heavily weighted...
...short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism of writers on military problems is that the next long war will be won by the nation with the greatest industrial potential behind the lines. The ability to mass-produce and to service guns, tanks, planes, ships and motors will, so the military theoreticians predict, be the crucial factor. Her lack of home metallurgical supplies would indicate that here, too, a warring Germany would be behind the eightball...
...finale from Piston's "Suite for Orchestra," a vigorous movement, full of strongly dissonant counterpoint, was a little meaty, perhaps, for such a casual audience. This program culminates a year of cooperation between music at Harvard and the Boston Symphony Orchestra which has made possible performances of Beethoven's "Mass in D" and the Brahma "Requiem," and has added so much to the content of Boston's concert season...
When he was 20 he married Elinor Miriam White and two years later entered Harvard for a final wrestle with culture. Two years were enough; he quit and began to teach. He also made shoes, edited a weekly paper (the Lawrence, Mass. Sentinel), finally became a farmer...