Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infra-red radiation tests show that dehydrated castor oil is a close chemical neighbor of tung oil, and, like tung oil, it yields a desirable, minutely wrinkled film when it dries. Some tung is produced in the U. S., but the vast bulk is still imported from the troubled Orient. Chemist John Carl Weaver of Sherwin-Williams Co. declared last week that dehydrated castor oil should help relieve the U. S. of dependence on foreign supplies not only of tung oil but of perilla and linseed oils as well...
...object of the plan," stated Professor Bock, "would be to help a man find an occupation for which he is fitted and, what is more important, one in which he is interested. At present the bulk of the students enter professions other than law, medicine, and teaching. Those fellows who are unhappy in vocations for which they are ill-fitted would be aided immeasurably by the plan...
...Attorney General, Superintendent of Education, were anti-Long. Totally destroyed in New Orleans was the Louisiana Democratic Association that Huey set up when he was getting control of the city. And out through the State's remaining 63 parishes (Louisiana equivalent of counties) the potent parish sheriffs, who bulk large in Southern rural life, were put in their place: 41 sheriffs were for Earl Long, but he carried only 14 of their parishes...
...lights and the birch trees in the parks shining against the dark earth. Students study at their windows, needing no artificial light; sometimes they go out and stroll along the embankment behind the Winter Palace (now the Palace of Art), where, across the Neva, they can see the great bulk of the Peter and Paul Fortress, in which are buried many Tsars. Along the Prospect of the 25th of October (the Nevsky Prospect of Tolstoy's heroes' time) sparrows are thick in the trees. On this street is one of the world's largest libraries...
...long time daily newspapers have been magazines, running largely, though, to the light and comic type. We are going to put more weight and bulk into the Courier-Journal in the belief that America has passed her adolescence, and readers are willing now to learn the facts of life...