Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Needham Heights, Mass...
...look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk, Patroness Coolidge was too tired to go that far for a concert (although she did get to one nearer home, in Pittsfield, Mass...
...Even swimming pools filled with filtered, chlorinated water are not too safe. For seven years Dr. J. Roswell Gallagher kept track of boys who swam and those who didn't in the Phillips Academy pool at Andover, Mass. Number of hospital admissions for respiratory tract infections was 14% greater among the swimmers, he reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Acute sinusitis was almost twice as high; mumps and measles spread more rapidly among the swimmers. But the total number of days spent in the hospital was about the same for swimmers and nonswimmers: the boys who didn...
Neutrinos are perhaps two-thousandths the mass of an electron, and have no electric charge by which they can be influenced electrically. They pass right through matter as if it weren't there. Physicists have calculated, says Dr. Gamow, that it would take a lead shield 200 million million miles thick to stop speeding neutrinos...
...Anderson; today, less literary than its friendly rival, the Atlantic, it is also more concerned with contemporary history. Allen frequently consults his good friend, the Atlantic's Editor Ted Weeks. Each regards his magazine as one of culture's last bastions against engulfing tides of vulgarity and mass thinking. Harper's, Allen says, is a forum for the "unorganized, unrecognized, unorthodox and unterrified," though it is rarely as bold as all that...