Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real pressure on the Shadow Faculty next year may come from the junior faculty members and doctoral candidates who are the bulk of its membership. The end of this term was spent working out a "constitution" that will give them more control over Shadow Faculty policy next year and less control to the Shadow Faculty's senior faculty and executive staff. Whether this will bring a shift toward greater emphasis on the research projects and less on theorizing remains to be seen...
Even when he struck the jackpot with his half-dozen world-famous uranium mines, two copper mines and an iron mine, he found it impossible to raise production capital in the States; the bulk of it came from Europe...
Those who pursue this detective story to its finish may be reminded of a Rube Goldberg invention, not because it is comically ingenious but because the elaborate machinery of its plot does not justify the picayune results. The awesome bulk of Author Thorp's contraption is achieved by extraneous detail; he is one of those authors who, having informed the reader that some character has picked up a phone, cannot get on with the story before informing the reader that the character has put the phone down. Thorp, his publisher and the Literary Guild (whose June selection...
...Reliable. Gary played trumpet and football in high school, attended the University of Redlands for two years. Then on to neat-but-ivyless Cal State at Los Angeles, a state-financed, tuition-free college with an enrollment of 20,000 students, the bulk of whom are Los Angeles commuters (the San Bernardino Freeway slashes along the edge of the campus). Described by both his parents as "a real plugger," Gary Wilson has earned a rock-solid B average and the nickname "Old Reliable Wilson" for his industrious work as president and treasurer of Theta Chi fraternity and member...
...story gave the world a view that it had tended to forget or ignore. His admitted homosexuality got a fresh airing during his celebrated 1963 court fight. He had married Syrie Wellcome and fathered a child, and then was divorced in 1927. Maugham wanted to leave the bulk of his possessions to his secretary and male companion of 36 years. His daughter, Lady Glendevon, took Maugham to court, and after a lot of nasty publicity, he lost the case. Vowing, after The Summing Up, never again to sift through an old man's memories, Maugham changed his mind...