Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main reason for the spiriting away and destruction of bluebooks is time. It is a long and tiring process for the grader or instructor to answer the often foolish gripes of a mass of unsatisfied undergraduates. But examining and answering these complaints and questions should be just as much a part of education as marking the exams, perhaps even more so. One chief aspect of effective learning is full knowledge of results; the Social Relations people have worked up some ingenious little experiments proving this...
...departure of Haya did not necessarily mean the end of Aprismo. It was still a large and tightly knit movement. Peru, a politically backward country, had no mass party to take its place. But Haya's future was something else. His own disciples had begun to criticize him. Nobody could forget that in the party's first long stretch underground (1936-45), the redoubtable chieftain had led his anti-Communist leftists from inside Peru without once being caught. But now, many Peruvians felt that it would be miraculous if he ever came back. Said an Aprista...
When the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia, Father George was a Croatian organizer of Catholic youth groups. He promptly took off his clerical garb, went underground, and with many other young Christians, eventually joined Slovak partisans. Fighting side by side with Russians, they kept their religion under cover-celebrating Mass, and even holding retreats, in forests with lookouts posted...
There is nothing modern about modern church statuary. Roman Catholic churches everywhere are filled with mass-production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to a safely low denominator of public taste. In Paris, a row of shops along the Rue St.-Sulpice supplies the demand. In the U.S., it's Barclay Street, in downtown Manhattan...
...watchmaker, bearded Aaron Dennison was something of a genius. He invented an automatic cutter for watch wheels in 1833, and fathered mass production for the U.S. watch industry. As a businessman and founder of the famed Waltham Watch Co. of Waltham, Mass., his renown was of a different sort. His crazy ventures and his carelessness in letting his company go broke earned him the nickname, "Boston lunatic...