Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the unanswered and perhaps unanswerable questions regarding the Wallace candidacy hinge upon the size of his expected vote. Since the bulk of Wallace support will come from the predominantly urbanized, politically conscious states where a large Democratic turnout might be expected, it is quite possible that a heavy Wallace vote will subtract enough from the Democratic total to insure a Republican victory in those states. At the same time a large vote will demonstrate the dissatisfaction of a considerable body of voters with the programs of the two major parties, and will cause both to make an effort...
Left, by Hollywood Director Ernst Lubitsch, to his nine-year-old daughter, Nicola: the bulk of his estate, worth an estimated $1,000,000. To his divorced wife, Nicola's mother: 15% of the estate...
Left, by Writer-Producer Mark Hellinger, to his widow, Gladys Glad, and their two adopted children: the bulk of his estate, estimated at more than $250,000. To his secretary, two friends, and his mother-in-law: $2,000 each...
...says Historian McNeill, was no theological treatise, but a small essay introduced by a letter to Pope Leo X, who had been trying to persuade Luther to retreat from his stand. Luther himself said of his essay On Christian Liberty : "It is a small thing if thou regard its bulk, but unless I am deceived, it is the whole of Christian living in brief form." As in all his work, Luther named faith as the sole key to salvation; faith alone- not works-justifies the soul and frees it from bondage to the Law and to Sin. But the faithful...
...Titian for two guineas. But Christie's friends, Painters Reynolds and Gainsborough, taught him the value of "stained rags"; Christie's descendants and their successors (the last Christie in the firm died in 1889) have never forgotten the lessons. Paintings now comprise the bulk of their sales. In 1876 Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire was auctioned for 10,000 guineas, then a record price. For almost a century each successive Christie sale was described as "the greatest this country has ever seen." Christie's privately sold Gainsborough's Blue Boy and Reynolds' Tragic Muse...