Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The anonymous author writes with a bitter pen. His book is a slashing, venom-dipped arraignment of Jewry, heaving its stinking bulk out of a diseased ghetto. It is a savage, relentless, yet unimpassioned, picture. The style is violent, unembellished. A crammed, stark, narrative. Many of the characters are recognizable...
...Christmas psychology has confused the business outlook. Retail prices for the largely superfluous objects which form the bulk of the holiday trade are rather high, with the suggestion of smashing bargains after New Year's. Gold pieces accumulate in the banks, ready to be drawn out, given as presents, redeposited and sent back to the Reserve vaults again...
...bulk of the evidence points to microparasites as the probable cause of sarcomas and carcinomas,'' says Dr. Erwin F. Smith, chief plant pathologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Vice President of the American Association for Cancer Research...
...Harvard and Yale have always refused to consider any system which did not bring the season to an end with the traditional contest between the Crimson and the Blue. On this rock have foundered all the plans for rotating schedules and the like. However large some particular game may bulk in any specific year the contest with Yale is Harvard's big game and unless undergraduate and graduate opinion changes very radically it will always remain the last on Harvard's schedule. Any change in schedules, and most Harvard men are willing to admit the justice of some change, must...
...square meal and was presented with three, not only square but pressed down and running over. A Swiss firm, deeming the mark cheaper than waste paper, attempted to import a few billion for conversion into pulp. But the Swiss government objected to the importation of foreign currency in bulk. Switzerland, of course, is a very small country. The world is all agog in expectation of what the mathematical moron will have to say. A dollar's worth of one-mark notes laid end to end ought easily to reach the moon, and a hundred dollars' worth might build a stairway...