Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Eiferman, 22, an awesome mass of sun-cured muscle, won the A.A.U.'s annual "Mr. America" contest in Los Angeles' Shrine Civic Auditorium. The judges thought Eiferman, an ex-Navy man and trumpet player, had a better build than twelve other bubble-biceped youths. Height: 5 ft. 9 in.; weight: 197 lbs.; chest: normal 47½ in., expanded 50 in.; waist: 30½ in.; biceps...
...other American colleges is on results--i.e., marks. The student who gets passing marks is no one's concern but his own, regardless of what kind of an education he is getting. And every undergraduate knows how easy it is, lo! even in the hallowed halls of Cambridge, Mass., to acquire passing grades without knowledge. Conversation might be a barometer: is there more discussion about knowledge gained in College courses or about the possibility of "bulling through" them without doing the work? One would guess the latter...
...where the dead were trucked out at night-and buried, trucks and all, the same night. The doctors knew the botulism was only a disguise for death. It was the radioactivity of the corpses that brought out the road-building machines to pour ten feet of concrete into the mass grave the power shovels...
...company. But Dumaine was already busy with another baby: the Waltham Watch Co. He had bought control in the 1920s when the company was run down, and made it tick. Until recent years, when he began cutting down his activities in favor of more horseback riding near his Groton, Mass, home, Dumaine had a hand in running, as a director, a score of big Eastern companies...
...HAVEN, May 13 (AP) Four of Yale's eight varsity oarsmen were reported today to be recovering from grippe as the Blue crew propared to head for Cambridge, Mass., and the important Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges regatta...