Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offing. It means, further, that the house will divide along age lines, which are not the lines that dining hall comradeship always follows. The tutors, for instance, who are just beginning to enter the life of the house, and the graduate students, will be segregated from the bulk of the undergraduates at meals; the battle which the house plan waged against the tutor's tables will have to be fought once again, and on more difficult lines...
Commissar of Health Mikhail Fedorovich Vladimirsky told the inquisitors emphatically that in the U. S. S. R.† "medical aid is given without payment to all workers and peasants, who form the bulk of the population. For the rest, the desire is to serve all gratuitously but hitherto they have not been included in the general service, the first call being for the workers. Thus in a dispensary an intellectual will have to wait until all the workers have been treated...
...country medicine has become more than half socialized . . . and, except in Britain and America, nearly all hospital treatment is a state service. Even in these two countries it is to a very great extent a state service. . . . In all countries west of the U. S. S. R., total official bulk larger than total private medical activities. . . . Other countries may well envy Soviet Russia's elaborately centralized Government . . . in that it has been able to brush aside all past complexities and to initiate a nearly universal national medical service on unified lines, untrammeled by such complications as exist in western...
...November building contracts in states east of the Rockies were 11% above October, 54% above a year ago and at the highest level in two years. PWA awards accounted for the bulk of the gain, but private construction topped November 1932 by 11%.-Dodge Reports...
There is no great bulk of required reading in the course; the standard compendium of facts gathered by Hazen is reluctantly suggested for a more nearly satisfactory narrative. But usually four or five volumes in the diverse fields of political, social and intellectual history as well as biographies, memoirs and sources are required. The lack of compulsion very often stimulates individual searching out of material in whatever subjects the student is particularly interested, e.g. the rise of Socialism, the evolution of Nationalism...