Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenged. Not everyone agrees that native speakers are necessarily the best elementary teachers of a language. While one of our most successful instructors was born in Vienna, and others in Germany, our brightest star comes from New Jersey. Nor is it true, at least in Germanics, that the great bulk of language teaching is done by Teaching Fellows; of eleven sections in German A, seven are taught by persons of higher rank. Not that the teaching ability of our high brass is by definition greater than that of our Teaching Fellows; the point is that there are "devoted teachers...
...dictating machine only a few months ago; and nine-year-old Brigitte (Reisberger), who has a big hit called Lieber Pappi, Mach Mai Sonntag (Dear Daddy, Take a Day Off). Recording firms these days will audition any subadolescent, and with good reason: teen-agers account for the bulk of German record buying. Mourns Munich Disk Jockey Werner Götze, a ripe 33: "With their clannish addiction to dress, slang and beat, they have become Germany's new, powerful, cultural fifth column, whose god is Elvis Presley, whose idols are their own stars, and whose encyclopedia is the comics...
...colonel, whose rank rests in Kentucky rather than the Army, inherited the bulk of his fortune in 1918 from his sister, widow of fabulous John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who made money on barbed wire and risked as much as $150,000 a night at the faro table. Some of the inheritance Baker invested in profitable local real estate, e.g., a bank, the Baker Hotel. The bulk he put to work helping his home town. Samples of his largess...
Blameworthy Bull. The bulk of the Japanese navy was divided into four groups. Two minor groups made up the southern force, which was supposed to steam through Surigao Strait between Leyte and Mindanao. The main striking group was the central force, under Vice Admiral Kurita. which was to steam through San Bernardino Strait north of Leyte between Samar and Luzon. Like two arms of a nutcracker, the two fleets were to converge on Leyte Gulf, wipe out. amphibious and supply craft there, and isolate MacArthur's forces on the island. A third (northern) force under Vice Admiral Ozawa...
According to Dalsimer, the bulk of the book is a description of volunteer-student relationships from different view-points. It attempts a sociological analysis of the interactions of Mental Hospital Committee members with each other, with the hospital, and with the University. Psychologically, it analyses the motivations and fears of student workers...