Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation will also advocate the formation of regional councils to carry on the bulk of the parent organization's work, and will ask that these regional councils consist entirely of college delegates, with the representation of the college proportional to the number of students...
...second-term Freshmen who chose fields of concentration this week, 344, or 47 1/2 percent, have decided to devote the bulk of their college efforts to studies in the social sciences: This is an increase of 15 percent over corresponding statistics of a year...
...point at issue was one of those legal technicalities on which the fate of whole nations sometimes depends. The British Cabinet Mission had divided India's provinces, for purposes of writing the provincial constitutions, into three groups. In Group A, which comprised the bulk of British India, the Hindus would have a huge majority. Group B was the predominantly Moslem Northwest. The trouble narrowed down to Group C in the East, consisting of Bengal and Assam. Nehru said that the vote in the Assembly should be cast by provinces, which would let him take advantage...
...election under the tutelage of an Allied occupation. The election, and especially the bored but watchful GIs who will be in charge, are symbolic of phases of the occupation that have been all too soon forgotten in America, where geisha houses, fraternization, and the war crimes trials are the bulk of newspaper coverage of Japan. To fill this gap in our knowledge, presumably, "Life" last week spewed forth a "Report on Japan" by a Senior writer called Busch. Sweeping his eyes quickly over the Japanese scene and General MacArthur's office, the Senior Writer concludes that the occupation is "sensationally...
...time when tutorial limitations have all but eliminated instructor-student contact, the recreational vacuum that surrounds out-of-class life at Harvard is strikingly emphasized. Efforts to coordinate the heterogeneous bulk comperising the undergraduate population have always been half-hearted, but in the past, Harvardmen have had enough leisure moments to work out a hit or miss social schedule of their own that could carry them through four years in Cambridge. Organized recreation now chiefly consists of a few token record dances and an annual class smoker...