Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public. The Keats collection, in a lavishly furnished, oak-paneled room on the second floor is another. It is the finest collection of "Keatsiana" anywhere. Including manuscript copies of three major poems Lamia, St. Agnes Eve, and Ode to Autumn, the collection contains two-thirds of the bulk of Keats' surviving manuscripts. About one-half of the collection was given to Harvard by Amy Lowell, along with many rare books from her own library; an addition, equal in size to the original gift was given later by Amory Houghton who occasionally adds new material...
...bulk of state funds will go for the requirements of an exploding population: schools, mental hospitals, highways, new buildings, welfare-and interest costs on bond issues floated to pay for major projects already begun. Much of the increase will go to take care of schoolchildren and longer-living indigent old people, who pay no taxes themselves...
...pennants out of the mist. The peasant at the bridge is a contrasting grace note of peace. High above him the army has found a pass into southern lands, and now, serpentlike, it descends to the river. For a time its triumphal progress fades behind the soft, pine-muffled bulk of an island; then it reappears behind another island whose barren rocks are as abrupt as a cymbal crash. The picture opens out, like a swelling andante, into the expanse of the lake, the welcoming bridge. Above, square black flags are a dancing arpeggio. Movement of eye and mind...
...Garcia & Co. cited a long list of grievances, old and new. The U.S., they complained, had still not settled a $972 million "omnibus claim" covering, among other things, damage done during the World War II fighting in the Philippines. It had yet to come through with the bulk of the $125 million in credits and development funds promised Garcia during his visit to Washington last June. After four years of Philippine pressure and 2½ years of on-again, off-again negotiations, the status of U.S. military bases in the Philippines remains unsettled. Most heinous of all in Garcia...
...bulk of tales, like the ones which the Gen Ed A men post in their office, concern bloopers--on finals, in essays and on orals...