Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other delegates made helpful suggestions. French Delegate Senator Henry Bérenger explained that France, which has taken in the bulk of refugees who have fled Germany, now finds she has "arrived practically at the point of saturation, which permits her no longer to receive further refugees without upsetting the equilibrium of her social structure." M. Bérenger cried: "The hunting of a man, confiscation of his property, a concentration camp beyond which there is only the graveyard as a horizon-all this is contrary to human dignity and can result only in the catastrophic disturbance of relations between...
Although modern freethinkers have gibed that the extant pieces, put together, would be as big as a battleship, in 1870 a French savant named Rohault de Fleury catalogued the known relics of the Cross, found that their total bulk was less than 4,000,000 cu. mm. By his calculations, the Cross measured...
Among the charges brought by TVA's ousted Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan against his enthusiastic young colleague, Director David Eli Lilienthal, was the accusation that Powerman Lilienthal wanted to charge the bulk of TVA's expenses up to navigation and flood control instead of to power development, thus reducing TVA's yardstick for private power rates to pure "subterfuge." Until last week neither utility men nor the public knew just what equations TVA did use in working out its rates. Last week, as the joint House-Senate investigating committee and its counsel, Francis Biddle, squared away...
...week in Prague, Premier Dr. Milan Hodza was conferring with Sudeten and other minority leaders. In a few weeks a new Czech minority program may be promulgated, offering the minorities more generous political and educational concessions. To remove signs of Czech dominance in the Sudeten areas, last week the bulk of the army reserves sent there five weeks ago were demobilized...
...taxation to equal rights for Negroes (who in several big cities lend the Party considerable support). The gist of the program is condensed in the Party's No. 1 Slogan: "For Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace." As a minimum basis for democratic coalition, Communists propose: 1) support the bulk of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy; 2) bring to bear all possible pressure for abandonment of his hands-off neutrality policy; 3) collaborate with France and Soviet Russia; 4) promise collaboration with Great Britain if it reverses its present, conciliatory approach to the Fascist powers...