Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard will unofficially add its voice to the national protest against Nazi religious and racial persecutions at a mass meeting in Emerson D at 12 o'clock today...
...unemployed, the PWA, Farley's Post Office, half of the colleges, the Protestant churches, the Federal Theatre and Art Project, the Farmer-Labor Party, Hollywood, the Newspaper Guild, the State Department, I suggest they be used to sell air-conditioning and thus remake this country as did mass production of the automobile...
Beefy, intense-looking Harrington Gates, the only one of their ten children that a family in Saugus, Mass. could afford to educate well, was Dartmouth quarterback, a hard-hitting blocker trained at Dean Academy by Coach Daniel ("Dirty Dan") Sullivan. Last year Heavenly Gates played on the Dartmouth team all season. Last September, Gates, a senior, did not show up for practice. Football, he told his friends, was commercialized, godless; the players swore too much...
...Brighton, Mass., Joseph V. Harkins took home 15 $100 bills, receipts from his jewelry store. He slipped the money in a telephone book to hide it. Few days later a telephone employe delivered a new telephone book, took away the old. When he discovered his loss, harried Mr. Harkins set to work with his family looking through 100,000 discarded telephone books. Five days later they found the money in the 75,000th...
...year period from Samuel Butler's Erewhon to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, writers have thrown tons of literary monkey wrenches into capitalism's mass-production machinery-with about the same effect as a man kicking the sideboard he stubbed his toe on. Machine-hating writers still evoke sympathetic response, but another school has lately gained ground...