Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country around Powell, Wyo. was huge, shaggy young Earl Durand, son of a respected rancher. From boyhood up, Earl talked about wanting to be a "true woodsman," a "Daniel Boone." He went to school through the eighth grade. Then, reaching a height of 6 ft. 2 in. and a bulk of 250 lb., all bone and brawn, he spent most of his time hunting and camping out in the Beartooth Mountains east of Yellowstone National Park...
...nothing more than an orderly one. For selling talk, Mr. Martin had his delegates pledge themselves to observe their contracts, keep out Communists, Nazis and Fascists, and debar all such gentry from office. In doing so Homer Martin alienated radicals who have stood loyally by him and supplied the bulk of his administrative brains...
...number of airplanes. On the other hand, however, the new territory must be policed, and this will involve expenditure of money, dispersion of forces, and internal weakening in general. Moreover, Hitler now has 1200 miles of territory on the Polish and Hungarian border which must be completely fortified. The bulk of the evidence does not indicate that time has ceased to be on the side of the democracies...
...President since Roosevelt I had the huge capacity of Roosevelt II to enjoy what he enjoyed last week. Far at sea east of the West Indies, his exact position unknown to the entire world, he played defending the Western Hemisphere with the bulk of the U. S. Navy. Submitting himself to strict wartime naval censorship, Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt dropped out of sight with Admiral Leahy on the cruiser Houston after steaming in for a close look at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, receiving Governor Lawrence Cramer of the Virgin Islands on board in St. Thomas Harbor, and paying a courtesy call...
More pounds of rubber now go into automobile accessories than into tires and tubes, which remain the bulk of the rubber business only because of replacement demand. The average car requires 40 Ib. of rubber for its accessories; some cars have as many as 300 rubber parts. And these do not include a new rubber spring Goodrich is perfecting, a new rubber shock absorber of Firestone's, or the industry's current prize hope-sponge rubber cushions, which it believes will supplant horsehair, coil springs and other upholstering material not only in cars but in mattresses and furniture...