Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that happened two weeks ago. This week the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, dragged into San Juan, P.R., under her own motive power but in the captive power of the U.S. Navy. She was proof in bulk that little suspicions can make a big difference...
...boys know he's at home), Tommy Hart can see the crescent bay where most of his fleet now rides at anchor. In the distance he can see the radio towers of the Cavite naval base and ahead, if the day is clear, the looming bulk of Corregidor, the Gibraltar that guards Manila. Close by he can see the merchantmen at Manila's big pier 7 busily unloading the precious stuff that he needs to keep his fleet in fighting trim...
...would have to sacrifice much if the maids were given a holiday on Sundays. The great bulk of the students, who habitually sleep till after the maids have gone, have to make their own beds anyhow, and anybody who gets up early deserves to have to have to make his own. What little sacrifice might be entailed would be more than compensated for by the bentfits to the working women. It is an imposition to ask them to arrive at their dormitories to do the few simple tasks that are theirs on the seventh day of the week. Like...
...population of Cambridge contributed last year, at least 40 per cent will be needed in the current membership drive, Sullivan said, in order that the now obligations may be met. Actually, the drive takes on a "special emergency" character, he noted, but the Council had decided to take the bulk of the Harvard share upon its shoulders rather than allow door-to-door soliciting...
...about a burlesque show. The joke-making is equally simple: always corny and always off-color. The casting problem could not have been hard: gams, old vaudevillians, Hot Mama Sophie Tucker and, to keep everything moving, Hellow-Mama George Jessel. The result is unfortunate: bearable in slivers, terrible in bulk...