Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moon in the sky the German baker, Ernst Vierkoetter, kneaded his way, machinelike, down the last mile. He stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled out. He had won $7,500. Three hours...
...everyone knows, safety razor manufacturers derive the bulk of their profit, not from razors, but from the replaceable blades...
Raki. The Turkish Government decided to sell an alcoholic drink called "people's raki," despite the fact that Mohammedanism, to which religion the bulk of the Turkish nation belongs, prohibits intoxicating beverages. A concession to brew raki was given originally to a Polish group, but because the public complained that it was adulterated and caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey...
...home of flying," the eyes of children looked intently upward. Thirty-five feet above them they saw Arthur Kraft with his mother's silk umbrella. He jumped; the umbrella turned inside out. The doctor examined; reported him unbroken but suffering from shock. Smoke Cloud. Observers saw the black bulk of the lie de France, French liner, approaching New York Harbor. They saw an airplane approach the lie de France, circle it, spouting white smoke. No longer did they see the liner. The smoke test, an Army experiment, had completely swathed the steamship in a shroud...
...This board works in very close co-operation with the Government of the day and the bulk of the money which it is spending at present is being devoted to a campaign of what you very well understand in the New World as publicity...