Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rogers Bill, sponsored by Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers (R. Mass.) has already passed the Senate and comes up for a House vote this week. It calls for monthly allotment boosts from $65 to $75 for unmarried students, from $90 to $105 for those with one dependent, and from $90 to $120 for those with two or more dependents...
Another characteristic of the lecture system is that the instructor is forced arbitrarily to divide his material into one hour periods. Such divisions tend to present the student with an unorganized mass of facts which are supposed to constitute a course. Evidence supporting this view can be drawn from the increased reliance on such crutches as "Hymarx," not because they contain the facts about a course, but because they present it as an integrated unit. This lack of organization can also be found at the next level--the field of concentration. A student takes a number of courses...
Harvard once had a mechanism which helped the student to integrate the superficially unrelated mass of facts which he accumulates in the course of four years into a meaningful body of knowledge, and which took into account the differences in training and ability of individual students. That mechanism is known as Tutorial. Now tutorial--once the distinguishing feature of a Harvard education--is on the defensive. It's the exception rather than the rule. The genuine scholar, if he uses good judgment in choosing his courses and in going beyond the required minimum of work in order to organize...
...great mass of Americans, the automobile not only represents the keystone of happiness and the hallmark of success but is the only unshifting goal in a baffling world. Millions who live unscarred through the jalopy or adolescent stage of life toil for decades to progress from Ford to Pontiac, from Pontiac to Buick, and cannot die happy unless guaranteed delivery to the grave in a Packard or Cadillac hearse...
...Charming Cats. Newspapers called him "The Worst Man in the World." They told fantastic stories of him: he could raise devils and dead cats; he drank blood; he celebrated the obscene Black Mass in his "temple" at Chancery Lane. Crowley added some stories of his own. He said he could make himself invisible, and claimed to have walked around a town once in a red robe and golden crown, unnoticed by anyone. In a treatise on magic he blandly remarked that "for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is best." In 1934 he sued Authoress Nina Hamnett for libel, claiming that...