Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current number of the Advocate shows considerable literary feeling and very creditable literary attainment. The curious quality about it is that although the bulk of the text continues to be formally prose, almost the entire spirit of the writing is poetical. The prose spirit scarcely appears except in the reviews, the editorial "Now That Mem is a Memory", and in the extended satire "Logic, or The Evangelical Ventriloquist", notwithstanding the maturity and power of prose narratives by Mr. Smart, Mr. Edmonds, and Mr. Finney. In the editorial on the closing of Memorial Hall, the voice of the Advocate joins...
...will leaves the bulk of the estate to his son Edward Sampson of Washington, D. C. The estate is given to the son as a trust fund which will not be accessible to him until he reaches the age of 40. However, the will declares that should he die before this time and should he leave no children the University shall receive $110,000 as an endowment for a chair of poetry...
...Second class postal rates are composed of two parts: A low flat rate on editorial matter; a higher rate, increasing by zones, on advertising matter. An issue of a publication is brought to a post office and weighed in bulk. The percentage of editorial and advertising matter is then calculated from a single copy. The rates are assessed in proportion and charged to the publisher...
...jewel, his voice was thunder. On the stage of the Chicago Auditorium he stood, for the first time this year. He was Feodor Chaliapin, giant Russian basso, appearing in Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like Hell's lava; in the kermesse scene, he spun...
...mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk...