Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike U. S. book reviewers, who rarely write novels, British book reviewers turn novelists almost as naturally as cocoons turn into moths. While this metamorphosis seldom produces a first-rate novel, it does produce, from plain readers' viewpoint, a pleasing bulk of readable fiction. With their ears continually close to readers' hearts, no one learns better than book reviewers that the warmest heart beats are stimulated by a readable story, lively plot, colorful atmosphere, easy prose, a minimum of literary pioneering. Thus informed, British reviewers, with a better average than most, turn out best-sellers as expertly...
...bulk of Eire's farming population the most important provision was the tearing down of tariff walls. When the retaliatory tariffs were instituted in 1932, Irish farmers lost their English markets, Anglo-Irish trade tumbled from $400,000,000 a year to only $210,000,000 in 1937. Last week's treaty practically brings Eire into the British Empire's Ottawa tariff group, provides that all Irish goods enter Britain duty-free while only certain British goods have the same privilege in Eire. The only ones who had no reason to acclaim this re-establishment of virtual...
...pitcher's victory over Adams, with Charley Ruch restricting the Funsters to 5 hits as he went the route, and belying the old tradition by knocking out two base hits. Merrill and Woodward shared the pitching duty for the losers, with the former doing the bulk of the work...
...society: to give performances and promote the study of the music preserved to posterity in Franz Schubert's writing desk. For, although much of this music is available in popular editions, and all of it is printed in the standard editions of Schubert's Works, the great bulk of it is seldom or never performed except in Schubert's birthplace, Vienna...
...Manager and executive boss, crisp Kent Cooper. But few shifts in A. P. setup or policies will be directly traceable to its president. The quality of A. P. news, lifeblood of its service, will continue to be determined by the news-gathering abilities of member papers that provide the bulk of A. P.'s news sources...