Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk of the U.S. population (perhaps 133,000,000 of the country's inhabitants) struggle or will struggle through life with "some unnecessary handicap of nervousness." They may be over-conscientious, oversensitive, or plagued by fears, prejudices, feelings of inferiority. Many individuals and families in this group are poor insurance risks because they seem to have an affinity for accidents (which psychiatrists explain as evidence of an unconscious urge to suicide). A classic case: a guilt-ridden patient who had had 24 major disasters, wrecked eleven automobiles. But this group also includes most leaders and "responsibility takers...
...shattered industry. The mission wants to find out what Japan can make, what raw materials will be needed, and how material imports can be financed. Then, some time this summer, it hopes to lift the ban on private trade. Even then, trade will be strictly regulated, and bulk commodities like tea, raw silk, and cotton goods will still be handled by the U.S. Commercial...
...acted fairly and with adequate notice to the men concerned. While the removal does not constitute any personal reflection on the men who were ejected (except an explicit lack of enthusiasm for Council activities), it poses a challenge to the newly inaugurated practice of electing rather than appointing the bulk of Council membership. Undergraduates have demonstrated that they want the Council to have closer ties with the student body than it has had in the past. But, if it is to be more than a debating society, the Council must also be able to perform its work effectively. The ideal...
Robert Frost, prominent poet, will read from his own poetry tonight at 8:15 o'clock in the Rindge Tech auditorium. Selections from "Steeple Bush," a new book of poems to be published shortly, will make up the bulk of the program...
...film which almost nobody can wholly like. Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure slapstick and warm laughter, and has borne down on moral complexity, terror and irony with an intensity never before attempted in films. At a time when many people have regained their faith in war under certain conditions and in free...