Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreeable hours, but the final result is rather insignificant. A bankrupt motion picture producer, Jonathan Shields, begs his former director, leading lady, and script writer to make one last picture for him. Before deciding, each of them recalls his former association with Shields, and their three reminiscences are the bulk of the film...
Joseph P. Dawson, representing the Baptists of the United States, devoted the bulk of his time to stating that Conant's position on parochial schools is "in harmony with the historic position of the Government" and is supported by the Baptists...
...live at present, subject other residential areas to the constant snarling of aircraft, and spend about $15 million. Love Field would then be comparable to Fort Worth's. Closer to town too. Last week Dallas citizens voted approval of a $12.5 million bond issue to get up the bulk of the money...
...Belgians, 11 million Bantus and Pygmies. To Joseph Conrad, the Congo River was "an immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine to the heart of darkness." But Belgian bosses have made the Congo the West's greatest reservoir of strategic minerals: three-quarters of its cobalt, the bulk of its uranium. Administration: unashamed colonialism, with no nonsense about "natives' rights." The natives, under hard-working capitalism, have a living standard far above Central Africa's average...
...seeker found the sun and held the camera steady on it for long enough to get a 28-second exposure. The film, recovered undamaged from the rocket's wreckage, showed a sharp spectrogram of the sunlight taken at 50 miles altitude, above nearly all of the atmosphere. The bulk of the ultraviolet was at just the place on the sun's spectrum where the scientists thought it would be: at 1,216 angstroms...