Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Black Box. Then Mr. Stephenson gave L. G. Julian, onetime business associate and also custodian of the much discussed "black box" in which the bulk of Mr. Stephenson's documentary evidence was believed hidden, permission to turn over the black box to Prosecutor Remy. There were really two black boxes, both of which the Prosecutor received. The contents of the boxes were not made public, but it was announced that they included, among other papers, checks for $21,000 and for $24,000. Mr. Remy appeared pleased at the evidence disclosed...
...cash ($400,000). Queen Marie of Jugoslavia cannot, as a foreign sovereign, own Rumanian real estate, and therefore was willed a legacy in cash and securities. The Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania will receive an income and the use of several palaces during life;" but the residual bulk of the king's fortune and estates was willed chiefly to King Michael? ($30,000,000), Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas...
...professional stamp collecting, 15 into the army, and only two into agriculture, but the vast majority of the class are following expected tracks into business, law, and medicine, while a thoroughly normal 200 remain undecided. Although an extraordinary number of Seniors are still of a very tender age, the bulk of the class have passed their twenty-first and are waiting for their twenty-third birthday. Thirteen are married--a number which, though connotative to the minds of the superstitious, is far from surprisingly large. Lastly some 36 members of the class were born in foreign lands. The number seems...
...Relations with the Alumni shows that a consistent effort has been made to keep the forty-thousand odd graduates of the University not only aware but well informed of the flux of life in and about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world...
...comforting refuge of the tabloids." This battle cry of tabloids was recently advanced by one of Bernarr Macfadden's subordinates on the New York Evening Graphic. Whether tabloids are a "comforting refuge" is questionable, but the fact remains that the full-sized newspapers have taken on an alarming bulk since the World War. They are not ashamed of their bulk-it represents increasing advertising revenue and new features; it grows bigger every day; it does not seem to fear the tabloid cry. Daily editions of 40, 48 and 56 pages are becoming commonplace in a half-dozen cities...