Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow. The Temple of Heaven is round and beautifully blue. Moldering, these majestic edifices stand in ancient Peking. When China was an empire, and that was but 19 years ago, the "Son of Heaven" alone was privileged to offer sacrifice to Heaven, Earth and the Great Ancestors. The bulk of the Chinese rabble scarcely had a religion. What they believed was that by tricks and spells one could ward off devils, and that it was dangerous not to respect one's omnipresent ancestors. Thus had Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism deteriorated. But Christianity had appeared to "revive" these lowly Chinese...
...short stories of Saki complete in one sizable volume is an event in the book-world. People who are already familiar with these unique sketches need only be told this inexpensive edition is well printed and that its seven hundred odd pages in some way have escaped from developing bulk--a rare feat. Others, to whom Saki is a meaningless word, can not hope to appreciate the importance of the occasion until they discover for themselves what Saki really means...
...occurs over a wide range of years. . . . Man is the only mammal with a prolonged period of development which may roughly be called the age of adolescence." At birth a rat has a physiological age equivalent to a nine-year-old child. "The elephant, in spite of its huge bulk, seems to pass through the successive phases of development to adulthood at approximately the same chronological rate as man." Anthropoids and Man keep time for six years. Then suddenly the anthropoids spurt. A seven-year ape equals a 12½-year boy; an eight-year ape a 20-year...
...Monrovia, the capitol, contained just two patients at the time of the expedition's visit. The practicing physicians in the entire country may be counted on the fingers of one hand and of the country's total expenditures only $18,000 is for the improvement of the people. The bulk is devoted to schools...
...long after midnight. It was difficult to remove the shutters, for a hard rain storm, but one no harder than usual for the season, was blowing in from the Atlantic. When they could look abroad there, seemingly within reach of a man on earth, was the breath-taking silvery bulk of the R-101. She was lurching along, a gigantic stricken thing, 400 ft. from the ground...