Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are all the nations whose quotas are more than 400 except Italy and represent by far the greatest bulk of the immigration. Italy with a quota of 3,845, had issued visas to only 2,487 immigrants by the end of the first week in June (the latest report). This condition in Italy must be artificial, as a far greater number of Italians are known to be anxious to come to this country. The Italian Government as well as our consuls have been picking the immigrants, which may have had a retarding influence. The Italian quota may be filled...
...name of Baruch belongs to "a young nobleman"; Cain, says Author Allen, is the same name as Smith. David gets the most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath who, says the author, "was probably ten feet high," gets only a paragraph for all his bulk, nor do Og, Gog and Magog, those hairy monsters, rate more. Noah is "accredited with having discovered the process of making wine." Joseph is referred to with consummate discretion: "Presumably being attractive of person, he suffered from a malicious and entirely unfounded accusation leveled at him by Potiphar's wife...
...Sporting Club of France, Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," competed with William Harrison Dempsey. High was the goal, the battle stiff. First Dempsey, then Carpentier led; but at last the U. S. pugilist weakened, his thick struts could no longer hoist his knotted bulk; Carpentier took a great leap to the fore, carried off the victory. The event was high jumping. Dempsey missed at 5 ft. 1 in.; Carpentier cleared...
...apparent purpose and blew endless streams of bubbles as they went. Each monster stared about him through one enormous glassy eye. To their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them...
...Freshman football team was stopped a foot from the Blue goal and forced to swallow a 7 to 6 defeat; the basketball team, after leading for the bulk of the game, lost by a single point; the track team gathered a bare two points less than their Yale opponents; but yesterday's reverse was the most disappointing of all. Eight innings of practically perfect pitching went for naught in the ninth after victory seemed within Harvard's grasp by virtue of a single score in the eighth which had broken a seven inning deadlock...