Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Henry Hudson, famous British author and naturalist, who died last year, left the bulk of his estate of about $40,000 to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, to be used for the preparation and distribution of popular educational pamphlets on birds and their protection among English school children...
...Seminary, which affiliated last spring to form the new Theological School, he states that hitherto it has been the custom of the Divinity School and of Andover Seminary to award scholarships of from $250 to $400 to any student who has an average grade of at least B. The bulk of the students in both schools have been in the past recipients of such scholarship help...
Still clinging tenaciously, in our material way to ideas of bulk, we may smile knowingly and say, "Ah, it is a question of relativity. The whale has the largest brain, but his body is much larger, in comparison with the dog, the monkey or man. Arrange everything according to the ratio of brain to body, and you have the order of intelligence." Babies, then would outrank us all, confirming Charles Kingsley. And the elephant, who is declared to be one of the craftiest of beasts, would come out nowhere...
...bulk of the nation, however, still continues to support Poincaire. It is generally believed that Germany cannot hold out much longer and that at the dawn of French victory the Ruhr will be made to produce enough coal and the German Government enough gold to pay for the occupation and the overdue reparations...
...choose a stout lifebelt and have your library waterproofed. The recent excitement in connection with the answers of various prominent men to the question, " What books would you like to have with you on a desert island?" has begun to quiet down. The chief impression left is one of bulk. Everything from the Encyclopedia to the Presbyterian Hymnal, the complete works of Shakespeare, and the dictionary have been proposed. Will Rogers favors the telephone directory...