Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Roosevelt II has partially divided the U. S. Fleet, sending its bulk back to the Pacific, a cardinal Navy doctrine which Alfred Mahan formulated is news. Just before Roosevelt I retired from the Presidency, Alfred Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified...
...assault on the bulk of New Deal economic measures and its "bureaucratic agencies," Tydings alleged that such measures "may be rationalized under the name of temporary measures, but never, never, never is the policy abandoned or restricted...
...history whose like will probably not be lived again in the U. S. A giant, discursive volume, it reprints copiously from Billy Phelps's books and "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, contains random commentaries on everything from Browning to blowing smoke rings. Its main bulk is given over to his many letters from famed writers, to his reminiscences of 41 years as English professor at Yale. (He estimates that he has taught almost 17,000 students, the majority of whom "have had for the rest of their lives a strong affection...
...wish to protest against a distortion of fact in Monday's Crimson concerning the athletic secretary for dormitory men. While the Student Council committee was indispensable in obtaining this program, the bulk of the work was nevertheless done by a committee of the Student Union, consisting of the following residents of Claverly Hall: Kwyn Abrahams '41, John Finn '41, and Paul Woodman '41. This H. S. U. committee organized the basketball team which showed the H. A. A. that dormitory men were interested in athletics, and it was their persistence that finally obtained the program. I fear that the prevailing...
Simple Soul. Late one night in 1931 a Russian tenor named Vladimir Doriani hunched his small, round bulk into a Russian train on the way from one small town to another. At about 2 a.m., dozing, he began to look at other passengers and they looked strange: like cutouts. Singer Doriani, who had always hated pictures felt overcome by a desire to draw...