Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circulation for the publication was attacked with Ford's habitual energy. When he purchased it, its subscribers numbered only a few hundred. After some of his sensational views on various topics appeared, quite a number of readers bought it for a time out of mere curiosity. But the bulk of its subscriptions were obtained by Ford agents or employees on liberal commissions of from 30 to 50%. Many Ford plants subscribed to the weekly 100%. Yet its circulation has spread considerably beyond Mr. Ford's own business following. There are 125,000 immediately employed by the Ford Motor...
...Herriot Government really desires to come to an understanding with Germany and carry out the Experts' Report. And even if M. Herriot is unable to continue in power, France will still work toward an understanding with Germany, since the bulk of the French, especially the peasantry, are weary of Poincar...
Close behind M. Doumergue's, moved two other pairs of distinguished pedal extremities, conveying, respectively, the stoop-shouldered little figure of Edward, Prince of Wales, and the swaying rotund bulk of Ahmed Mirza, recently deposed Shah of Persia. Came other European princes, potentates, diplomats. Came scores of officials, bedight with badges...
...minutes over Canadian soil; then the Shenandoah encountered (without difficulty) a heavy fog drifting over Buffalo from Lake Erie. Over Canaseraga, N. Y., the dirigible ran into a thunderstorm, and great flashes of lightning lit up the huge and gleaming bulk at frequent intervals. The dirigible dodged the thunderstorm with ease, though she had to leave her course over the Erie Railway and to retrace her route to the North for a while...
...visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally mystified as a result. A more external treatment for the bulk of the story should make the incidents more real. But the effect as the story stands is considerable, and the vigor of style deserves to be rewarded...