Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk of Dick Harlow's information on the New Haven team, however, has been gathered by a scout relatively unknown to followers of the Crimson--Bobby Bell--a Bowdoin football captain before the war and a present native of Everett. Bell has been watching the men in blue since the season began...
Spark for an Engine. The Harriman Committee concerned itself less with administrative details than with the ability of the U.S. to meet Europe's needs. The very bulk of its 3-lb. 14-oz. report inspired confidence. Its air of hardheaded realism, resulting largely from the shirtsleeve editing of ex-Senator Robert La Follette (see cut), was calculated to appeal even to Senator Robert Taft. Its main points...
Zacharias punctuated his article with two sentences framed in Doomsday black: "A single milliliter† of the highly infectious psittacosis [parrot fever] virus could kill 20 million men. This virus can be produced cheaply in bulk by a small laboratory anywhere in the world...
That six million in dividends, and not, as many suppose, the sum total of the University's money, comprises the bulk of cash available from the endowment fund for current expenditures. Add two million in "gifts for immediate use," nearly five million in reimbursement on Government contracts, and close to twelve million in tuition, and you have the total income of Harvard University in 1946-47--some twenty-five million dollars. Expenses ran a mite lower, leaving the University $369,333 in the black for the year...
...only in Menjou, who admits knowing no Communist, worthless as a testifier, but the charges smack of the preposterous. The great bulk of American movies, present a glamourized version of what Louis B. Mayer calls, "the American way of life," almost always avoiding red hot political issues. The mass-production of wishful thinking and the reluctance to deal with controversial problems may themselves be an indictment against Hollywood, but that is not in Mr. Rankin's field...