Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several of the poorer items in this sixth issue of "Wake" were not so blatantly characteristic of a certain persistent type of writing, I would by-pass them entirely in favor of the better pieces, which comprise the bulk of the magazine. But when creations such as Austryn Wainhouse's "Selection: The Peripateties," typical of that irritating sort of writing that requires the reader to approach it as if it were a puzzle, continue to appear in magazine after magazine, there is good reason to offer a hesitant objection. I say hesitant, because baffled as surely...
...chemistry and a year each in biology and physics. If they thought more concentration desirable, they would assuredly demand it in their admission requirements. Rather, it is the hope of many committees of admission that the student broaden his education in the humanities and social sciences, leaving the bulk of scientific training to the four-year medical school and the succeeding one- to five-year hospital programs. Today, it is the feeling that too many physicians emerge from their education with little but a high school education in all but the field of science...
...students in English A-1, Ciardi is just about the perfect writing coach. Affable, sincerely interested, seldom contesting his students' aims but dealing with their methods and treatment, Ciardi's criticism of the short stories that make up the bulk of the courses is often a formulation of the writer's own vague misgivings, and hardly ever clashes with the writer's own standards and opinions. Ciardi tries to steer his students down the middle road. Personal standards are indispensible; but on the other hand, the "purpose of writing is to be read" and prose must be communicative...
...been sighted in the southern counties. Sir John Anderson, until recently chairman of the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy, warned the House of Commons to plan now for civilian defense in an atomic war. Shop counters were piled high with oranges and lemons (the British had foresightedly cleared the bulk of the Palestine citrus crops before beginning troop withdrawals). Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats and soap were hard to find. The current...
...well worth the trouble. Said a Manhattan cabbie: "We're beat. We got expressions just like the people in Europe. It used to be you could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.'" The bulk of TIME'S news subjects, however, are not in the same category with the Niebuhr story or "The Last Traffic Jam." They are precisely the same as those that confront all editors: Congress, the presidential campaign, the national defense, the European Recovery Program, international conferences, upheavals abroad, the United...