Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a Heil-dominated, Republican Board of Regents almost a certainty, Wisconsin wondered last week how soon, if at all, the Governor would carry out his threat. President Dykstra is popular, has won public confidence as a good educator and administrator. Even the bulk of the Republican legislative majority opposes the president's removal, but the Governor could wait until the Legislature adjourns and then do as he pleased. Day after the Assembly passed the bill, the Governor conferred for an hour with ousted President Glenn Frank, who flatly assured a reporter: "Let me say, once...
...Gave her a lush shipping traffic (bulk of the trade between the two countries is carried in Japanese bottoms...
...place for a nunnery was General Toda Rai's palace at Mopu. The soaring bulk of Kanchenjunga opposite, surrounded by lesser peaks of the Himalayas, gave it far too spectacular an outlook, and no alterations could remove the memories of the women for whom it had been built. Nevertheless, the squat little general's offer was gratefully accepted by an Anglican sisterhood. Why the nuns left before the rains came, Rumer Godden tells in Black Narcissus...
...every child between 3 and 12 years, using the Canal. Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain has paid as high as $50,000 one way. Ships in ballast find it cheaper to return to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. Worried Englishmen, who see the bulk of Canal tolls going into French pockets, while cutting down British profits of the Asiatic and East African trade, suggest tolls based not on tonnage but on draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they are not worried enough to sponsor the Italian demands...
...cagiest father-son money-making teams in U. S. history. A bachelor, Henry Putnam Jr. consulted no one, cocked his feet on his old desk, wrote a will. Last year he died. Last week it became known that after specific bequests to hospitals and other charities, he left the bulk of his estate, $8,000,000, to four female cousins, all over 70; that, although he was no college man, he had provided that after his cousins' deaths the $8,000,000 should be divided equally among Yale, Harvard and Princeton, which had never heard of him. Once more...