Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ephmen, traditionally a scrappy outfit, have had a dismal season so far, winning but two contests out of nine starts. And these two victories were against bandbox colleges Hamilton, and U. of Mass. A 6 to 6 deadlock with New England ski leader Middlebury rounds out the credit side of the Williams hockey ledger...
Breadwinner. In Cambridge, Mass., a housewife explained why she kept her husband drunk: sober, he made $30 a week; in jail for drunkenness, he made her eligible for $60-a-week welfare...
...nothing comic, however, about the conclusions reached by qualified observers. New York Times Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin found that, while the exercise proved the feasibility of limited, small-scale operations over snow-covered terrain, large-scale transpolar military expeditions would be "virtually impossible." Wrote he: "The difficulties of mass airborne operations in subzero weather are so major that they may never be solved." Mars, like a brass monkey, could not stand intense cold...
...just another exhortation. Clem Attlee called for a voluntary freeze, but he warned that the government might intervene if necessary. Failure to peg wages and prices, he said, would lead to a pricing of British exports out of the world market. That would quickly mean "mass unemployment and real desperate hunger...
...despite its flaws and its frequent failures, "Raintree County" is worth a few days' wading-through, if only to experience those scattered portions of the mass that crop up almost without warning to give the impression of real greatness. Lockridge displays direct inheritance from Welfe and from Joyee and from Dos Passes, but most of the time it is all Lockridge and the good earth of Raintree County...