Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been known for a long time," said Dr. Boas, "that the bulk of the body as expressed by stature and weight is easily modified by ... favorable conditions of life. In Europe there has been a gradual increase of bulk of body between 1850 and 1914. Adult immigrants who came to America from South and East Europe have not taken part in this general increase. . . . Their children, however, born in America, or who came here young, have participated in the general increase of stature of our native population. With this go hand in hand appreciable differences in bodily form. Just...
While the official delegation is here, the attraction of public figures such as Roosevelt, Garner, and the like will momentarily draw the lime light away from the graduates and scholars that make up the bulk of the participants. But this should not change the character of the proceedings from a meeting of learned men to a stamping ground of political compaigners. The rigors of the presidential race will leave the field to scholarship once the official benediction has been bestowed. No one need fear that the Senate will break up the celebration by recognizing Harvard's historic significance...
Most of Philadelphia went to his big funeral. Most of the U. S. heard about his will. In it eccentric Stephen Girard, whose only child died in infancy, set aside some $6,000,000, the bulk of his fortune, for a college for "poor male white orphan children," prescribed that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor." When Stephen Girard's French kin tried to break the will...
...bulk of the forward passing burden will be born by Howle Lewenstein, up recently from the Jayvees...
...repeated patching and reconstruction of a more or less pliable and long-suffering organism. The bony framework has been warped and cramped and stretched in one part or another, in accordance with variations in the stresses and strains put upon it by different postures and by changes in body bulk. Joints devised for mobility have been re-adapted for stability. Muscles have had violence done to their origins and insertions and have suffered enormous inequalities in the distribution of labor. Viscera have been pushed about hither and yon, hitched up, let down, reversed and inverted. In making a new machine...