Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also, the ability to think on one's feet, to pay out an ideational line of thought one length ahead of its conversion into speech is coming to be more and more essential to the average undergraduate, as the bulk of college graduates tend increasingly to become salesmen and executives, instead of professors, doctors, architects, lawyers, or divines. By putting a premium on the nicely articulate expression of one's own thoughts instead of the inclusive repetition of the thoughts of other men, as is usually the case in, classroom recitation, the undergraduate would acquire an ease...
Extensive studies of the housing problems at other universities were made by the Harvard authorities before finally fixing the prices. At Yale no room costs more than $350, while the bulk of the rooms cost between $240 and $280. In the House Plan official listings make the highest amount any individual can pay as $620 although in the shifting of prices some of the individual amounts went up to as high as $660. At Yale, however, the tuition is $50 more and only a limited number of rooms in Harkness quadrangle have private baths. None in the old quad have...
...Washington, to the American Society of Newspaper Editors sharp-tongued little Frank Richardson Kent, political gadfly for the Baltimore Sun, buzzed angrily: "There is more bluff, sham, false pretense, faking, cheap posturing, posing and futility here[in Washington] than any place else. The bulk of the birds who fly about in the Washington aviary are not nearly as beautiful or as good as they pretend-or as the newspapers picture. . . . What they want is to be taken by the newspapermen as seriously as they take themselves. What they don't want is to have a newspaperman go behind...
...crackling evening over White Bay, Newfoundland, last week. A lonesome woman, solitary radio operator on Horse Island, took a long bedtime look at a brig-antine's bulk in the broken ice 16 miles off shore. It was the Viking, seal hunting ship from which Varick Frissell* with a troupe of 15 last year took the major part of a talkie, to be named White Thunder. For continuity, he this year wanted shots of seals pupping and the pups learning to swim. He also wanted scenes of sealers dynamiting icebergs out of their ship's path. The Viking...
Several outstanding works of art, the gifts of the late Mrs. Aaron Naumberg of New York, are now on exhibition at the Fogg Museum. Four of these paintings, shown on this page, from the bulk of the collection of paintings included in the legacy...