Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approved separately a farm price bill and a farm mortgage bill which were lumped together in the Senate measure. It still had to act on the currency amendment. Such action was expected promptly and without change as a result of a conference between the two houses. The sheer physical bulk of the farm bill with amendments was more than matched by the dictatorial powers it gave the President over Agriculture and Finance. He could fix and collect a processing tax on wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, dairy products, tobacco, rice, sugar beets and cane with which to pay producers of these...
...either hand, the red bulk of the buildings seem to forbid his premeditations; still the Vagabond envisions beyond them his day of country pleasures, sure of fruition, his sunlit dalliance, and his final quart of ale, dish for a Ring...
...which took place in Old Delhi, India, after crafty Prime Minister Disraeli secured for Queen Victoria the additional title of Empress of India, was reproduced in the Garden with such historic fidelitv that the lead elephant's name was Technocracy. Another one, Lily the Golden, was a massive bulk of gilt bearing a gilded girl. A mighty blaring of brasses followed the pachyderms, from bandsmen geared out in topis like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts, the ankuses, the jasmine garlands, the gas flares-but not missing was the public's immediate acclaim. Though...
...scenes of her success in New York, shows in the latter part of the picture, provide more opportunities for the exercise of her crooning ability, and less for the exhibition of her bulk. One shot that should be preserved for posterity is the view of our behemoth hotcha mamma writhing in the contortions of a tap-dance...
...quadrangle, to the small number of inhabitants, and to the isolated position. But perhaps more significant is the term "social desert" which has clung to this seventh unit. Kirkland, to be sure, possesses a share of social climbers and lights; but unlike any other House, it possesses a stable bulk of population, a comfortable companionable middle class, which, quite without effort, finds itself a solid unit...