Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mostly a series of lectures (delivered at Yale) on teaching science to undergraduates who do not intend to become professional scientists. Dr. Conant's idea: illustrate the "scientific method" by citing historical cases in which science has solved tough problems. Science, he believes, cannot be a mere bulk of static knowledge, however large: "Almost by definition, science moves ahead...
...Begone, Bulk Purchase, heavy-handed hick, Who still suppose that you can do the Trick. The nimble thousands, dodging here and there, Confused the foes and made the Market fair: But when your tall gross figure comes to town They all at once combine to do you down. Begone, Economist: no more profess To play with Cheeses as you play at Chess. . . . Come, lovely Chaos: come, the Bad Old Days, Before the Wise Men watched about our ways, When Ministers had not enraged the Sun, Not much was Planned but many things were Done...
...Chaco garrisons, which had the best arms, had gone over to the rebels, whose forces dominated Concepcion. So had four training planes and two hydroplanes, which constituted the bulk of the air force...
...front on the bandstand, his chunky bulk overlapping a fragile barroom chair, sat Sidney, his shiny golden saxophone in hand. Behind was Lloyd Phillips, grinning at an upright piano with its insides laid bare. A Neolithic-looking fellow named Freddie Moore stared glumly at his drums. Lloyd began patting it out and Freddie picked up the beat. Then old Sidney started. The other members of the trio had sense enough to stay out of Sidney...
...Standard octopus had its tentacles cut up into 34 pieces. Though most of the pieces have grown bigger than the old trust, none has garnered a big enough share of the U.S. oil business to raise the scare of monopoly. And now that the Rockefellers have sold out the bulk of their holdings, no individual stock interest is greater than 4%. But Jersey Standard, allergic to the word "octopus," thinks that the more autonomy the subsidiaries have, the less it will hear the word mentioned...