Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Was Tiny." In The Collected Stories, the bulk of his too little-known work is fully translated for the first time and prefaced with a perceptive introduction by Critic Lionel Trilling. Like another Eastern Jewish writer, Sholom Aleichem, Babel was a folk artist of the ghetto. To Aleichem (TIME, April 25), the ghetto was as comforting as a mother's lap, and he could always smile through the tears; to Babel it was just a prison cell which he tramped with despairing irony. Laconic and deadpan in style, his autobiographical stories are nonetheless as anguished and personal...
...flooded the exchange with sell orders, hoping to scare prices down to the point where they could buy at a low enough figure to meet their original contract commitments at a profit. But the city slickers' trick did not work; Maine's farmers had aIready sent the bulk of their crop to market...
...University plans to devote the bulk of its allocation to astronomy, chemistry, physics, and the medical sciences. According to the will of the late Eugene Higgins, the income must be used "to foster education in natural and physical science, to promote the general advancement of science by investigation, research, and experiment, and to encourage the application of the knowledge so obtained to the improvement and benefit of mankind...
Parking violations comprise the bulk of these, but once again, the police are not concerned primarily with discipline. Aside from an occasional fine for a three-time violater, serious action is left to the University administration...
...capital home on a three-month notice, must keep only 10% of the total in Iran for six months to meet any possible claims. Finally, in case of nationalization, "fair and adequate" compensation will be given to foreign investors, and they will be allowed to take out the bulk of their investment...