Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the odds slightly in favor of Dartmouth, the University track men will enter the triangular meet at Mechanics Building at 7.45 o'clock tonight determined to make good probably the best chance for a Crimson triumph in six years. Cornell, having lost the bulk of her veteran material by graduation, has special power in a few events, but on an average is not rated very high. Dartmouth's combination is reported to be the best in years, while the possibility of Cornell's inexperienced men snatching, several second and third places gives the outcome of the struggle a doubtful...
Thus, if we carry our foreign commerce, or the major part of it, as we aim to do, the freight money, instead of being paid into foreign hands, will be paid into American hands, the great bulk of it to be spent in this country. It is generally estimated that ocean freight charges represent about 8 per cent of the value of the goods carried. It is easy to understand, then that if nine-tenths of our goods are carried in foreign ships, which would be the case without an American merchant marine worthy of the name, our ocean freight...
Perhaps this is the panacea that educators have been trying to discover for the past year or more. It is much like an earlier suggestion made by Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education. Can overcrowding be met by the simple expedient of letting men do the bulk of their studying away from college, by means of a series of reading lists, written reports, and examinations? If so, the bugaboos of "selective admission" and the universal right to education will be supplied...
More and more men are being employed in the great business of motion pictures. Consider, for instance, the physical bulk of the motion picture industry in Los Angeles County; the third largest industry in that County is food production, with a weekly payroll in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars; the second largest industry is petroleum, having a payroll a little larger than a third of a million; surpassing both of these in size is motion pictures with a combined weekly payroll, I am told, approaching a half million dollars. Of course this makes the motion picture industry...
...detailed tactics required for the peculiar warfare in which they were to be employed. The entire fleet did not contain more than one percent of graduates of Annapolis or five percent of experienced sailors. Practically all, officers and men, were civilians, a few more amateur yachtsmen, but the bulk of them were American college undergraduates. "Boys of Yale, Harvard, Princeton-indeed practically every college and university in the land-had dropped their books, left the comfort of their fraternity houses, and abandoned their athletic fields, eager for the great adventure against the Hun". That they at first knew nothing...