Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastham, Mass...
...president of Lever Bros. (Pepsodent, Lifebuoy, Rinso, Spry, Lux) had been showing some visitors through his Cambridge, Mass, plant when the call had come from Washington. He could think of many reasons why he could not serve. He had just taken on a new cosmetics business for instance. "But," he said, "it was an opportunity to pay back my country for being good to me." He consented...
...good ship Atlantis, an oceanographic research vessel, was back in Woods Hole, Mass, last week, after two months of seagoing mountaineering. Purpose of the voyage: to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the submerged mountain range that divides the Atlantic Ocean-from Iceland almost to Antarctica. The range breaks the surface at only a few points (the Azores, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha). But if the Atlantic were drained dry, it would be one of the world's most spectacular ranges, with several peaks 20,000 feet above the ocean floor...
When the rocks brought back by the Atlantis are properly studied, they may prove that: 1) the Ridge was once part of the original continental mass, before the continents parted company; or 2) the underwater range is a young mountain system, slowly rising in the widening gap between the continents...
...look upon the world," said Methodism founder John Wesley, "as my parish." If John Wesley had been in Springfield, Mass, last week, he would have been pleased to see how well his parish was represented. Assembled for the Seventh Ecumenical Methodist Conference were 500-odd delegates from 16 independent Methodist groups on five continents...