Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes a member of one of the twenty odd colleges which make up the university. The average college has only two hundred members; so he finds himself in a social group that is small enough to assure him the opportunity of gaining a personal acquaintance with his fellows. The bulk of these will naturally be English and Scotch, but he will find among them students from the British colonies, and many others from the continent of Europe and the Orient...
...demands of the Allies at the recent London conference were absurdly large. To meet them Germany would have to attain, within a few years, a favorable trade balance of a bulk of two billion dollars a year. This is at least three times as large as any reasonable estimate would indicate to be possible...
...rather humiliating for an American to feel that if he wants to travel to most foreign countries, most of the largest and best steamers plying the Atlantic and usually flying some other flag than his own. It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of our commerce is carried in foreign bottoms and the reason for it is that the costs are so high in the United States and the laws under which our ships operate are so oppressive in their workings that our fleets operate under a handicap...
...returns of the Hoover drive so far have been encouraging, especially in view of the fact that it is expected that the bulk of the returns will be handed in tomorrow evening, when all dormitory chairmen will report to the drive head-quarters in the Crimson building between 7 and 8 o'clock. It is especially important that all the chairmen should report at this time...
...hold a country as large as the United States with a population not equal to that of New York city. Our greatest danger is our unpeopled interior. We are in this respect in a position practically of that of the United States in the War of the Revolution. The bulk of our population is, as yours was, on the eastern seaboard. Australia therefore, welcomes immigrants wherever they may come from. We hope to fulfill the late Colonel Roosevelt's wise suggestion and 'fill up our waste spaces...