Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bulk of men who have neither the bent toward public life, nor the ability to insure early retirement. I wish the pleasures which come from the contact greater field than their own community There is work there for all college men, present lack of curiosity in those subjects seems to be giving away to a general interest in all that has to do with their world, of which this is one very great phase...
...recess. Syllabi and theses will now occupy all their time instead of only part of it. They are already weary of knowledge in spite of the small amount of it they have acquired; and they have a time ahead of them when, weary or not, they must learn in bulk instead of bits. Time was when spring vacation meant that they too could make holiday after the taste and fancy of their natures; but, saving become not men but seniors, they have put away childish things. If it only made them feel better, there would be something...
...their feet, produce wealth, pay better wages and buy, we share in their prosperity. Just let me give you an instance. In negotiating the debt settlement with one of the smaller nations, it was shown that the minimum of existence in that country, a scale at-which the bulk of the peasants are now living, was $31 per man per year. This included no meat, one suit of clothes and one pair of sandals a year. Think what it would mean in the aggregate to us to have that country be able to increase the standard of living there...
...very remarkable fact that at the present moment the amount that the United States is receiving from Europe is approximately equal to the whole amount of reparations which Germany is paying. But distribution of the receipts from Germany and payment to the United States are entirely different. The bulk of the receipts from Germany go to France, who at present is making no payments on account of her debts, and the bulk of the payments to the United States is being made by Great Britain largely out of her own resources...
...equaled, if not exceeded, by machines; that it is from animals that man has discovered all his secrets of automotive economy; and that the possibility of flying 400 yards a second is already written in the mechanism of Cephenemyia, whose tremendous power is stored in extremely reduced bulk and weight-Dr. Townsend advanced the around-the-world-in-a-daylight-day flight not altogether facetiously...