Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realize what a cruel thing I was doing. I made a discovery. It is was not that a device which catches a beast by the leg and holds it for hours and often days was cruel and wrong; that has been known for centuries. My discovery was that the bulk of this atrocity was so enormous, so much worst in character than was thought, that it was quite unnecessary, thus robbing the fur industry, as now carried on, of every scintilla of ethical justification...
...that shipments reached a total of $31,199,834 in 1927, as compared with $8,681,412 in 1926. The All-Russian Textile Syndicate Inc. of Manhattan reported that its exports amounted to $42,000,000 in 1927, against $33,000,000 in 1926. These two companies handle the bulk of U. S. trade with the Soviet Union. Total export and import business between the two countries was estimated at $100,000,000 in 1927, $70,000,000 in 1926, $48,000,000 in 1913. The State Bank of the Soviet Union of Russia has arranged with the Chase National...
...tangible Harvard memorial to Thomas Hardy has taken the form of an exhibit now on view in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. Early editions of Hardy's works, letters and photographs constitute the bulk of the collection...
...prone to believe, however, that those who own remaining drawings by Turner would feel a very real regret at the loss of the bulk of the artist's work, in spite of the pecuniary advantage to themselves. They will undoubtedly cling with anxiety to the straw of hope held out by experts that perhaps the major part of the Tate collection was not destroyed...
...obtained and adapted to college courses is shown by our experience at Harvard. Several years ago we began to gather actual problems from Boston and Cambridge, and later from cities in other parts of the country. A few of the cases were secured from printed documents, . . . but the bulk of them were obtained first-hand from public officials, bureaus of municipal research, and civic organizations. Altogether about 150 cases have been collected. Each of these cases attempts to raise for discussion some fundamental principle of municipal government and each involves an issue which permits an argument on both sides...