Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...metal case of the set in question was bulged, and the contents shattered beyond use or identification, but it was no molten mass. Surely, if the bomb was as powerful as described, it would have been a fire hazard in the event of such an accident as I figured...
When young (33), studious-looking Herbert A. Philbrick of Melrose, Mass. took the witness stand that afternoon, he was still a secret, dues-paying, in-good-standing member of the Massachusetts Communist Party. He was secure in its confidence and even a minor functionary in the underground apparatus...
...feelies-movies in which audiences could not only hear and see, but feel the clinches-were a major diversion in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the Utopian state where people were not born but mass-produced in retorts and female yearnings for motherhood were assuaged by a quick shot of "pregnancy substitute." The only utopia currently available for study is not up to feelies yet, but it is ready to report progress. Last week, Russian Movie Director Grigory Alexandrov announced that the Soviet film industry was on the verge of producing smellies. Said he: "We want to look...
...Carrera Séptima, dead of an assassin's bullets. The death of Liberal Firebrand Gaitán touched off the bloody riots that Colombians now call el bogotanazo. To forestall possible trouble on the April 9 anniversary, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez forbade mass meetings that day. Liberal leaders promptly called the faithful to memorial services on April...
...endings in Nick Carter and Horatio Alger tales; another ate up Supersnipe and the Shadow comics. None of their pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five comic books and their four surviving pulps (Detective Story, Western Story, Doc Savage, The Shadow) bit the dust...