Word: bulks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from the tissues instead of using dual mechanisms of lungs and blood stream. Laws of gaseous diffusion are such that [this system] is extremely efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with increase of size, until it ceases to be of use at a bulk below that of a house mouse. [So] no insect has become moderately large by vertebrate standards or moderately intelligent." If the termite had a proper trachea, man might never have appeared on earth...
...Brazil's inexpensive coffee (that makes up the bulk of most blends sold in the U.S.) is being imported in decreasing amounts, 842,000 bags in April, 635,000 in May, 348,000 in June. Of the 10,594,715-bag quota, only 6,181,559 had been landed in 8½ months up to mid-June. Meantime Colombia's tasty mountain-grown coffee was imported to the tune of 330,991 bags last week, an alltime weekly record. Thus, for one week at least, Colombia beat Brazil 4-to-1, whereas the usual ratio...
...Harvard as a graduate of Oberlin College. Two years of intensive study in the history of Far Eastern languages won him a Fellowship from the Harvard Yenching Institute, and the opportunity for further research in Paris, Tokyo, and Peking. It was during this period that he accumulated the bulk of his truly gargantuan store of knowledge, not of Far Eastern history alone, but also of the dark and tortuous workings of the Oriental mind. At the same time, the student of history had a unique opportunity of watching history in the making. Already the clouds of war were breaking over...
...would ordinarily jam-pack every butcher's showcase in the U.S., mean cheap meat for U.S. citizens. Not this year. The Government is buying 40% of all packer-processed pork, a big (but undisclosed) portion of beef and veal output. Some of this is lend-leased, but the bulk of it is gobbled up by U.S. fighting...
...Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers (men's clothing) are doing better, have landed the great bulk of all uniform orders. Last week WPB promised to give 20% of that work to I.L.G.W.U., and I.L.G.W.U. has little interest in fighting for much more against another union which is better trained for heavy uniform work anyway. What it is really after: cotton uniforms, nurses' wear, powder bags, field jackets, Mackinaws, cartridge belts, parachutes...