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Word: masses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this disinterested vantage point, Mr. Wolff has surveyed the tutoring problem. Lifting from these columns the chief evils of tutoring, he has numbered them! (1) writing papers; (2) spotting examinations; (3) discovering snap courses; (4) conducting mass cram sessions. Yet Mr. Wolff is loath to discuss these ills. In the first place, he thinks they may be unethical; in the second place, they are not practiced by his establishment, "as far as I know," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALIAS "GUIDANCE" | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...noteworthy. But in such an intricate play as "He Was Born Gay" convincing acting required a great deal of intelligence and ability. The lead, Mason, was especially complex and a less sensitive actor than William Manson would have mixed weakness, mysticism and ambition into a completely incomprehensible mass. That Manson was able to cope with such a character successfully is a compliment to his skill and perception. No less a job had the other members of the cast. Each character, so carefully worked out by Williams, demands all the resources of even profesional actors. In the large majority of cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...Mass picketing by students of Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley took place in Harvard Square yesterday for the striking drivers of the Yellow Cab Company on the eve of today's meeting of the State Arbitration Board investigating the labor dispute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Picket for Yellow Cab Drivers In Struggle for $15 Week | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...charge of the world's ''greatest mass demonstration of industry and commerce," the NRA parade of September 1933. With 254,475 in line, the parade marched from 1:30 until 8 p.m.-past Eleanor Roosevelt, three Governors, numerous notables, including Mr. Whalen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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