Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a meeting yesterday the Advocate announced the election of five former members of the Monthly, rival literary publication. The Advocate through Nelson R. Gidding '41, secretary, denied that the Board had any intentions of sabotaging the Monthly by taking over the bulk of its membership, while at the same time Pierre Amyiot '41, speaking for the Monthly, denied any rumors of a split in the ranks...
...than $100,000,000. Mr. Harkness gave money to save California's redwood trees, to feed and clothe victims of flood, drought, un employment, to archeology, to museums, hospitals, medical research. He made gifts to progressive Sarah Lawrence College (see p. 66), to progressive Swarthmore College. But the bulk of his great fortune went to conservative old schools that he knew and loved well...
Belgrade had never had such a weekend. Her hotels and restaurants swarmed with visitors. Unprecedentedly present were some 200 foreign newsmen. Spies, "observers." diplomats were also on hand in bulk to: 1) circulate rumors favorable to their countries; 2) pickupstraybitsof information; 3) watch enemy spies, "observers," diplomats...
...upon the undergraduates. . . . The most serious part of the situation, however, has been the harmful influence of the tutoring schools in a college which has as one of its aims the early development of the capacity for self-reliant, independent work on the part of its students. The bulk of the activities of the commercial schools have an undesirable effect upon Harvard's avowed principle of self-education and rest upon a false idea of college training...
...widow, Mrs. Mary Harkness, was bequeathed the bulk of the estate of an unrevealed value. Harkness gave away more than $100,000,000 during his lifetime, of which more than $13,000,000 went to Harvard for the construction of the Houses...