Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change, said Dean Hanford, has been approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order "to adjust the physical training program more closely to actual practice and conditions as they exist today." At the time the present system was adopted, the Faculty pointed out, the great bulk of students were going immediately into the armed forces; most of the men now going into the services from Harvard College are members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes...
Mathematics and engineering form the bulk (55%) of the normal curriculum...
...first scoring jamboree was accomplished without the benefit of much lusty slugging. A walk and two successive errors by the Bruin hurler had the third well started before Art Conlon's single to right, followed by a double steal, did the bulk of the scoring...
Redeployment of U.S. troops in Europe was already under way this week. It was not yet the vast movement that will shift the bulk of General Eisenhower's fighting men to the Pacific and the command of General MacArthur. But it was far enough along to require the full-time attention of a major general. The man assigned to superintend the greatest moving day in history was dapper, schoolmasterish Major General Royal B. Lord of the Corps of Engineers...
Kesselring could play the role the Nazis may want him to play. He could surrender the bulk of the armies in the west, then plead that he had no control over Nazi-led fanatics. From their southern bastion, the Nazis could blame the final blowup on leading Army figures...