Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the appearance of LPs, once-bulky record albums became slender. Now major labels are again selling bulk, by releasing records in packages and series. As the winter music season got under way, several large, attractive series were on the counters. Victor released the second two LP volumes of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, played with unbeatable fire and insight by the late great Artur Schnabel. London completed its own releases of the same series by 70-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus, as well as all seven Symphonies by British Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted...
Although many students live outside the University area, and few graduates are familiar with the work that occupies the vast bulk of their colleagues' time, there is an unusual spirit of warmth and unity among the graduates eating in the Harkness Commons or relaxing in the Graduate lounges. It is not the warmth of the House dinning hall or the undergraduate student activity, but the warmth of men and their neighbors...
...redheaded Uris brothers. Percy and Harold, have made a fortune out of conforming to the latest taste in office buildings. Their recent constructions in Manhattan have been compared both to wedding cakes and to Assyrian ziggurats, and have more layers than the former, more bulk than the latter and about as much esthetic merit as both combined. Says Percy Uris: "We're not building in a vacuum. We're building in a market...
...tanks as the German Panzer division of World War II, and immensely more firepower. Set up to operate efficiently as a single force, yet scatter quickly into small units and thus present a poor target for atomic attack. Arms: The U.S. has already stockpiled, mostly in the U.S., the bulk of Germany's first needs, $500 million worth of guns, ammunition, tanks and planes. By 1956, Germans hope to be making their own light arms, by 1959 their own tanks and jet fighters (under the London agreement, they can not make atomic weapons, big bombers, guided missiles, bacteriological...
...more than a century (1788 to 1905), the Adams family papers, growing in bulk and importance with each generation, were kept in the "Old House" of the Adams in Quincy, Mass, and in the Stone Library there...