Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postman was scarcely out of the door today when we threw away 43 pieces of bulk-rate mail. Increasing the postal rates on this bothersome junk would help our postmen and, most of all, the Post Office Department. They have to handle it and run up a deficit doing it. But this could never happen, since it would mean increasing rates on magazines and newspapers...
...actually moved 87,000 peasant families onto plots of their own. Some legally took over uncultivated parts of confiscated estates; more, inflamed by the example, simply seized land amid scenes of bloodshed and destruction. After Castillo Armas took power, many landlords grabbed back their holdings with equal violence. The bulk of the 1,950,000 indifferent, largely illiterate Indians stayed unbenefited on their subsistence corn patches high in the mountains...
...clients either a straight fee or a percentage of cost, ranging from 4.5% (for an air base) to 8% (for a hospital). Despite the booming business. Pereira and Luckman take out much less than the $100,000-a-year Luckman got as president of Pepsodent. They plow back the bulk of the profits into the business. Though he is busier than ever, Luckman still finds time to serve on the boards of five Los Angeles civic groups. He wakes at 5 a.m. in the Bel Air mansion he bought from Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who recently commissioned Pereira and Luckman...
Advance-guard painting in America is hell-bent for outer space. It has rocketed right out of the realms of common sense and common experience. That does not necessarily make it bad. But it does leave the vast bulk of onlookers earthbound, with mouths agape and eyes reflecting a mixture of puzzlement, vexation, contempt. A cursory study of advance-guard painting gives rise to the conclusion that it consists, like the Mock Turtle's arithmetic, of "Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision." It is wild, woolly, willful. But nothing has only one side, and negatives cannot sum up America...
These committees would ease several aspects of course conflicts, but they could accomplish little without another modification of the present system-more even distribution of courses among the various examination groups. Largely because of faculty preference, in many departments the bulk of undergraduate courses are scheduled on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10 and 11 and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 10. If, in spite of faculty and student pressures, more of these courses could be distributed, and interdepartmental committees would be enabled to accomplish something beneficial, if not striking. Although no one expects the great morass of courses...