Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't going to be as easy as that. Last week, two Britons were making the rounds of countries to which the bulk of Britain's ?3,750,000,000 sterling debt is due. And the Britons-as becomes debtors -were asking, not telling, the creditors...
Down: Dollars & Exports. Last week the results of some "follies" were officially recognized. Austere Sir Stafford Cripps's Board of Trade confirmed that the bulk of Britain's exports have been going to nations inside the sterling bloc. The balance of payments with "hard money" countries (the U.S., Canada, Switzerland) is more unfavorable than was calculated a year ago. The hard fact is that Britain has sold too little in the "hard money" markets (only about 14% of her exports), while buying heavily (about half of her imports) in those markets. A sore point in her U.S. buying...
...with a large head and orange-colored hair. Inevitably, he was called "Punk" (short for "punkin-head"). Because of his initials, one prophetic friend called him "Railroad." As a boy, Young learned how to ride horses, handle guns and use his wits to compensate for his lack of bulk...
Like Gaul, Harvard is divided three ways, into the graduate schools and laboratories, the Yard (not campus, please), and the Houses. The Yard, birthplace of the College, lies between Cambridge Street and Massachusetts Avenue and contains what are called Freshman halls, the bulk of the classrooms, and administration buildings...
...equipment. Four months, 42,000 miles and 16 countries later they had 100 hours of recorded interviews with prince and fellah, commissar and coolie, pundit and stevedore. The English transcript filled 3,700 typed pages. For three months Corwin, four recording engineers and six typists chewed at this great bulk, finally worked it down to a hard core. Last week, the first of 13 One World Flight broadcasts incorporating the material was aired over...