Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, frail-seeming, slender Chinese took national bulk and stature last week as the War Lord presumptive of half China. Within the space of two full moons his armies have swarmed up from the . South Chinese Bolshevik region of Canton and overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang...
During an afternoon devoted mainly to dummy scrimmage, Coach Horween put considerable emphasis on the defense against a forward passing attack. A year ago William and Mary was able to complete four passes out of 17 attempts, and the bulk of the Virginians' attack tomorrow is expected to come via the air route...
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...admire your terse, imagination-stirring, Thomas Carlyle style, and generally hand each week's finished copy to some friend telling him I am complimenting his intelligence by giving him the sample. Please do not let success expand TIME'S pocketable size to unwieldy bulk as success did for the Saturday Evening Post...
...greatest game that he had ever played as with a mechanical impulse he leaped for the murderer. There were detectives in the group that day, men trained for just such moments. "Big Bill" Edwards acted quicker than any of them. Straight as a bullet he launched his enormous bulk forward in a flying tackle that had in it all that nerve and muscle remembered of wild times on ringing fields. The gunman, still firing, crumpled backward; powder burned the sleeve of "Big Bill" Edwards; a bullet seared his arm. For a while after that he was cheered wherever he went...