Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sum is the residue of a $50,000 income which is annually derived from the estate of the late William F. Milton '58. After his death the bulk of his estate was to go toward the building of a University library or, if there was no such need, to defray the expenses of any special investigation of a medical, geographical, historical, or scientific nature. It was further stated that such investigation should be "in the interests of, or for promoting the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, or to assist in the discovery and perfecting...
...think it is not sufficiently realized yet that a considerable bulk of the real experimentation going on in our playhouse owes its inception, if not its actual carrying out, to college trained men, many of them trained at Harvard, and several, at least, in the Harvard Dramatic Club. It is at present difficult if not financially impossible, for the so called commercial theatre to take experimental productions on tour. If the country is to see what is new and fresh in the dramatic world, amateur dramatic groups have still very largely to exhibit it, and by exhibiting it to train...
What Price Glory, They Knew What They Wanted, Desire Under the Elms, The Firebrand, Dancing Mothers, Mrs. Partridge Presents, The Fall Guy, The Youngest, Minick, Wild Birds?these ten plays in slightly condensed form make up the bulk of the volume...
Last week he died. His will was opened. He had left a small bequest to each of his two sisters in Nebraska. The bulk of his estate (about $100,000) he left to the county for the erection of a school gymnasium and playground. The town was shocked. The Negro's body was carried to the Court House and a public funeral was held. Three clergymen-Presbyterian, Methodist, Roman Catholic -spoke over his body...
...evidence that I was remembered by those far from the folds of learning and was hunting some mail I came upon the only thing which I dread worse than a bill--a card from my tutor. So I had to chase up to the pleasant-scented, airy, and roomy bulk called Holyoke House and visit "my friend and my severest critic." Needless to say he was surprised and delighted to see me, even offered me a cigarette which I refused, remembering to fear the Greeks even bearing gifts, as Shakespeare said. At once my tutor began to show interest...