Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Meat Packers): the turkeyfurter, or hot turk. Its ingredients: one part smoked turkey, one part veal, one part pork, plus breadcrumbs, thyme, sage, an emulsion of turkey fat and broth, all stuffed (like brother hot dog) into sheep casings. Its economics: price 37? to 41? a Ib. in bulk (about 10? above best frankfurters), to retail at 15? each, complete with cranberry sauce and roll...
Though A Sea Island Lady never in any direction exceeds what its audience can take, it rarely eases up short of that. Within those limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...
...training camps, where the bulk of British fliers are now being trained, boys of 20 and 21 are taught not only to fly, but to fight. Heavyweight Boxer Len Harvey (himself an R. A. F. sergeant) teaches them how to take it on the chin. Psychologists teach them how to make the most of their brains and nerves. Officers teach them to respect the authority of such crackerjack leaders as their Chief of Air Staff, Sir Cyril Newall...
...addition to Koufman, another capable end makes his appearance on the Varsity squad after a long injury. He is Gene Lovett, a teammate of Koufman's on the 1937 Yardlings. Levett weighs 198, and is 6 feet, 1 inch tall. Like Koufman, his bulk is expected to stabilize the hitherto featherweight wing squad...
Wealthy estates brought riches to institutions, individuals. Steelmaster Charles Michael Schwab bequeathed the bulk of his unlisted wealth to his brother, Edward, his sister, Gertrude Barry, and the children of his late brother, Joseph. Genevieve Brady Macaulay, made a Papal Duchess for her philanthropy by Pope Pius XI, left $1,000,000 in cash to Husband William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Minister...