Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of visiting scholars also shows a slight decrease over the peak figure of last year. Though the number of such scholars is large, 637, the majority of them stay with us for only brief intervals and the bulk of their visits falls during the summer, when it is easy to accommodate callers from outside...
...Mexican Indian, a onetime cowboy and an Alabama Negro who used to be a bootblack composed the bulk of the music which Conductor Leopold Stokowski brought from Philadelphia to Manhattan one night last week. The fair-haired Stokowski was proving that his orchestra gives an occasional hearing to untried native composers...
...summers in Italy, the long-established routine has been for him to summon musical reporters and inform them of the singers he has engaged, the operas he intends to produce the coming season. The picture in his dark, musty office has always been the same: Gatti settling his great bulk in a swivel chair, fumbling for the ribbon which holds his pince-nez, reading his announcement aloud in slow, painstaking English. When questions were asked, he would stroke his beard, answer warily or not at all. A grave "good afternoon" regularly closed each such session with the Press. Last week...
...Grew Embassy what it is to many another. The Ambassador drives his staff, makes a fetish of seeing that they work the Service's statutory seven-hour day. Instead of "stealing" the bulk of his reports from his staff, an old trick of lazy diplomats, Ambassador Grew works up most of his own stuff, pecks it out with two fingers on a rickety typewriter. Specialists, of course, he must have. Small, crisp, sharp-nosed First Secretary Erie R. Dickover is the specialist on oil, the Embassy aide of the hour. For nine years stocky, dimple-cheeked Councilor of Embassy Edwin...
Whatever business support the Administration may have lost, political observers agreed last week that the great bulk of the U. S. voters were, if not in heart and soul at least in pocketbook, ardently in favor of the New Deal. Henry Prather Fletcher and all good Republicans hoped that there would be many surprises in the election returns. Any unexpected result on Nov. 6 was bound to be in their favor...