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Word: masses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daylight V.F.W. funmaking provoked fewer hooligans. Proudly the veterans of four wars, 30,000 strong, paraded for five hours through a confetti-tossing mass of cheering New Englanders. Bostonians managed a grin at the placard behind a strutting Lone Star bugle corps: "The horse Paul Revere rode came from Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Boston Tea Party | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Your caption writer inaptly labeled your front page "Britons never shall be robots;" he's evidently out of touch with Britain. This country is being tied hand & foot by a mass of incoherent legislation, miles of red tape, and a never-ending stream of forms. You list Labor's so-called achievements-take a look at the other side of the picture. For the first time in our history we have bread rationing; conditions are worse than in wartime; you can't buy a new pane of glass or paint for your porch without filling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...water, Mrs. Li put Patsy on a mass of floating wreckage. She lost Lottie and was herself picked up by the Japs. She believed that both children were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Return of Patsy Li | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...diving girls are again bringing up oysters. His 1,500 factory workers are deftly seeding them with a mother-of-pearl bead. Soon he expects to have 1,500,000 oysters working for him. By mass production he hopes within a few years to have prices down to suit the pockets of the masses. His eyes are on his No.1 market, the U.S. Says he: I like Americans best. They are straight-forward-like children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Pearls for Everyone | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Assuming that the industry could get moving under all this, the mass desire for new automobiles would still go largely ungratified for a year or two. Even if conditions were ideal, manufacturers could not make new cars as fast as the old ones are falling apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Treading Water | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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