Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the management. Exactly 200 favored A. F. of I candidates. The result corresponded with those in other elections in motorland, in which to date 60,000 workers have voted. Less than 5% have supported A. F. of L. Not more than 9% have signified attachment to company unions. Bulk, 78%, have voted for unaffiliated representatives. The returns were bitter news...
...healthy U. S. oyster bears about 16,000,000 young. Biologists compute that if all the offspring of a single oyster should survive they would confuse the solar system. Within five generations one oyster's offspring, closely packed together, would bulk eight times as large as the earth. Last week on the first day of the 74th Congress, Representatives, less prolific than oysters, dropped 2,964 bills into the bill box at the right of the Speaker's rostrum, an average of almost seven bills per man. If all of them survived the U. S. would likewise...
...average ages of the different groups. In addition he must be constantly on the alert to provide variety as nothing will so quickly cause dissatisfaction as monotony at the table. In his search for variety, on the other hand, he must not serve dishes which are unusual to the bulk of his customers...
...appears to me," concluded Lord Hewart, "that the bulk of the provisions of the Licensing Acts are quite inapplicable to the House of Commons, of which most of us have some knowledge. I am clearly of the opinion that this rule nisi ought to be discharged...
...head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions is a cheap (about $1.50), convenient bed in a place where they can circulate from room to room swapping stories, dickering deals, playing poker...