Word: masses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...groups of diamond potential in the rough are being polished daily at Briggs Cage where candidates for the Freshman baseball team, and an amorphous mass of aspirants for the Varsity and Jayvee nines are working...
...sets some 10-20% at no boost in price. And Radio Corp. of America told of a much greater improvement to come (probably by year's end). It has developed a 16-in. steel cathode-ray tube (the basic part of a television set) which can be mass-produced to replace glass tubes now in use, thus lowering the costs of some sets...
Between Movies. Mass production had also come to the industry. The Radio Manufacturers Association estimated that television output (31 manufacturers) reached a new monthly peak in February of around 33,000 sets, a jump of nearly 170% in six months. The speedup in production and increased competition had. also brought out cheaper models...
Most of the picture is mere "minor" detail and incident: a summer storm, a Sunday Mass, an inarticulate courtship; baking, plowing, haying, threshing; the steady modulation of the days and nights and weathers and seasons across the land. And such images are the chief vocabulary in which the picture's grave eloquence is expressed...
...Wallace become an apologist for Stalinism? Macdonald concludes that "a large power-mass like the Soviet Union exercises a tremendous gravitational pull on an erratic comet like Henry Wallace. ... It is not true that Henry Wallace is an agent of Moscow. But it is true that he behaves like one. . . . Wallace has made a career by supplying to the liberals a commodity they crave: rhetoric which accomplishes in fantasy what cannot be accomplished in reality...