Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election followed a centuries-old formula. For four days electors were confined to the Society's headquarters at the Borgo Santo Spirito. When election day came, they attended a 5:30 Mass of the Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped...
...practice Gary Middlecoff, an Army dentist who is regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with a comic-strip name, Smiley Quick...
Down from Style. The backbone of the industry is smaller, mass-producing outfits who were drawn west by 1) California's Chamber of Commerce and 2) lack of unions (of 15,000 sportswear workers in Los Angeles, only 4,200 are unionized). All of them took to the area's informal outdoor living and, with no pretensions toward high style, began turning out comfortable, colorful, casual clothes in bright, modernistic factories as different from Manhattan's dark lofts as their bathing suits were from those of 1890. By 1943, 85% of the industry's annual output...
Bitter enemies of the Bermuda highs are the "polar air masses" which bulge down from Canada. Their cool air creeps below warmer air masses, lifts them off the ground, wringing the moisture out of them in belts of chilly rain. When a polar air mass finally dominates the sky, the weather turns cool and clear...
Sometimes a polar air mass protects the eastern states in a more dramatic way. Last week a West Indian hurricane roared northward toward New England. Storm warnings flew; fishing boats scurried to cover. Two hundred Navy airplanes fled to Albany from Quonset Point, R.I. Police on Cape Cod were alerted for onrushing trouble. But a rescuing polar air mass hovered over the threatened area, pushed the dreaded hurricane harmlessly away from the land...