Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sons of famed Tom Slick, "king of the wildcatters," and stepsons of Oilman Charles Urschel* (after Tom Slick died, his partner Urschel married his widow). The brothers were not content to live on $10,000 a year apiece left them by their father, nor wait till they inherited the bulk of the $25,000,000 Slick fortune...
...been generally supposed, and even publicly stated, that the only purpose behind the boxes which have run over my signature is a kind of aimless invective, a form of egocentric iconoclasm. Within these limits, the adjectives applied have attained the bulk of a thesaurus...
Nationwide Parish. Though requests for copies of sermons make up the bulk of it, Dr. Sockman's record-holding letter haul contains enough on personal problems and perplexities to give him a bird's-eye view of his nationwide parish. On the "current thinking of these parishioners, Dr. Sockman hazards these general conclusions...
Last week one of the first detailed reports out of Malaya, biggest producer in the Orient, scuttled this hope. After jeeping through the Malay peninsula, TIME Correspondent John Luter reported: no hidden stocks of tin, and no mine would operate for months to come. The Japs had looted the bulk of the engineering tools, flooded the mines, left destruction and decay behind them. The plight of the tin mines was far worse than that of the rubber plantations, which had been comparatively unharmed...
...industry did not do it, then it might find the state trying to do it. Because it had been ready to pick up the reconversion ball, industry had shaken off the bulk of the wartime controls far faster than optimists had expected. Now it could shake off the rest by doing the job, or have more controls slapped on because it had failed. There was no reason why it should fail...