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Word: bulks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more liberal Herbert E. Winlock. Still the Museum of Modern Art grew and prospered, gained much prestige and more publicity with its loan exhibitions of almost everything from Henri Matisse to modern kitchen utensils. But it still owned no important pictures. In 1931 Miss Bliss died, leaving the bulk of the pictures she had been buying since the Armory Show to the Museum on condition other members raise an endowment fund of $1,000,000 (later reduced to $750,000) to care for them. With Mrs. Rockefeller leading, 160 members produced $630,000, including $100,000 from the Carnegie Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 53rd Street Patron | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

That such organization is a crying need, particularly in elementary courses, which can best be described in terms of bulk and indigestion, needs little proof. Many professors and instructors advocate going to tutoring schools for just such a purpose. Words heard at the end of the term in one large elementary course, "Now, gentlemen, we turn you over to our unofficial confreres on the Square", express and attitude all too prevalent and reveal internal weakness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORGANIZATION OR INDIGESTION | 1/15/1936 | See Source »

...great bulk of re-employment," she said, "has been put on the workers themselves. Wages for skilled workers are at an all time low, while the cost of living has risen tremendously, and taxes are steadily increasing." Besides this, the national debt has risen to an alarming figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorothy Thompson Describe Hitler Regime as 'Receivership of Broken Down Bourgeois Order' | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...will continue to expect some kind of governmental aid. I believe that they will be given some kind of subsidy because they held the balance of power in our bi-party system. I believe that some kind of aid is due them because they produce and rear the great bulk of the citizens of the United States. For instance, in 1930 farm people had twice as many children per 1000 women 15 to 45 years of age as did the cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Zimmerman Denounces A.A.A. Program and Reduced Crop Production, Agrees With Decision of Court | 1/7/1936 | See Source »

...automobile industry, however, the bulk of the truck business is concentrated in a handful of companies. Ford and Chevrolet make nearly three-fourths of all U. S. trucks sold. Dodge makes another 10%. Biggest non-passenger-car truck builder is International Harvester, with still another 10% of the business. One good reason for Harvester's dominant position among the independents is the fact that one out of every four trucks is a farm truck. In the first ten months of last year these four companies sold 91% of all commercial vehicles registered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trucks | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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