Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quincy, Mass., not far from the starting-point of his ancestor's famed midnight ride, Paul Revere, 22, handyman, passed his auto driving test...
...intensively the relatively bright stars of our galaxy [the Milky Way]-as individuals and not as statistical material. We want to know why it is that all the matter in the world is segregated essentially in two forms: stars and nebulae. Why are there no stars which exceed in mass a few hundred times the mass of the sun? Why is it that nearly all stars and nebulae consist of the same chemical elements in roughly the same relative proportions as we find them in the sun? Where and how do the stars generate their stupendous energies of light...
...young Czech named Thomas Bat'a (rhymes with "hotcha") left his small shoe factory in Zlin to study mass production methods in the U. S. He applied what he learned so well that by the World War his Zlin factory was turning out 6,000 pairs a day. Then Austria took over the plant and Shoemaker Bat'a returned to the U. S., set up a small factory in Lynn. When Czecho-Slovakia was born in 1918, he returned to Zlin to build Bat'a Shoe Co. into one of the world's largest (capacity...
...Southern sympathies by naming his son after General Robert E. Lee), was born in San Francisco, where his father had become embroiled in politics, in 1875. After his father's death, his schoolteacher mother moved the family back to New England. Frost went to high school in Lawrence, Mass. At school, a passage in Virgil's Georgics suddenly made him understand what it was to be a poet. He began to write; but meanwhile, after Dartmouth proved too academic for him, he set out to make his living in a Lawrence mill...
Fires were sweeping over Temple Mountain at Sharon, N. H., in woodlands east of Derry, N. H. and through the densely-treed wastes between Sagamore and Cedarville, Mass...