Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the whole town took up the cry of angry protest. Six Providence lawyers volunteered legal help. Most of the town's veterans' organizations and the Good Government Club rallied around. There were mass meetings, hangings in effigy, furious speechmaking. A minor intramural row had turned into a major political fight. The biggest heroes in the city were handsome, hefty Patrolmen Frank Klich, Lucien Tessier, John Byrnes and John Gorman-now nicknamed the "Fearless Four...
...inflated inventories and the boom will end in bust. Let the wage earner sacrifice, you may say, let the veteran suffer, but in the long run no economy can continue to distribute inflated profits to one small class and inflated costs, a huge consumer tax, to the great mass of men and still be prosperous...
...error. Northrop is not alone in finding this error in John Locke, whose 17th Century philosophy contained the premises of Jeffersonian democracy, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The error consisted in the theory that "physical substances" (space, planets, flowers) are definable only in Newtonian terms (extension, mass, volume), thus have no sensuous qualities (depth, heat, fragrance) but are supplied with them by the "mental substance" of the observer...