Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roots of Alienation. Keniston visualizes and defines the professionalists as the bulk of students, but he believes that the emergence of this type has been paralleled by a new kind of "student dissent, marginality and misery." He divides these students into three groups, all of them in a sense "professionalists manqu...
Filed for probate in Virginia City, Nev., the will of Author Lucius Beebe left the bulk of his $2,000,000 estate to Old Friend Charles Clegg, with whom he shared ownership of mansions in Virginia City and Hillsborough, Calif. But, true to his fashion, Beebe also set aside $15,000 in trust for a favorite companion: T-Bone Towser II, his five-year-old St. Bernard. The funds may come in handy for Towser, who picked up some pretty fancy habits from his master. He pads around the mansions wearing a brandy and a créme de menthe...
There will inevitably be situations in which professors decide to leave Harvard on short notice to take advantage of grants and appointments, but the bulk of absences, next year, will be the result of sabbaticals and leaves of absence falling due simultaneously for a large number of professors. The lack of planning coordination within the English Department has been increased by the two-year rotation of chairmen. It should be the duty of the chairman of the department to see that sabbaticals are spread evenly over the years and to avoid creating professorial gaps in any one area...
Last week Royal Brougham did just that. With no fanfare, he announced that he would donate $250,000, the bulk of his personal fortune, to set up a charitable foundation that will help send needy kids to school and college...
...Western railroads get the worst of this arrangement. In the U.S., the heaviest flow of bulk-product rail traffie moves from West to East, as Western states ship their grains and other raw materials eastward for finishing. Once a Western-owned boxcar has ar rived in, say, New York, an Eastern operator simply takes it over and keeps it-paying that nominal rental fee dictated by the Association of American Railroads. The two lines currently hardest hit by this system are the Great Northern, which owns 22,800 boxcars but now has only about 48% of that number...