Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different from that for most cover stories. Although Senior Editor A. T. Baker, Writer Horace Judson and Researcher Martha McDowell had at hand some 70 pages of current reporting from TIME correspondents covering the civil rights front and a wealth of other background from TIME'S library, the bulk of their material came from Faulkner's writings. In ten days of preparing for the story, Judson read or reread from cover to cover some 13 volumes of Faulkner's works...
...Peace Corps. He has persuaded the British to make up budget deficits of Malawi for its first five years of nationhood. He has established friendly relations with the Portuguese, who control his only outlet to the sea. He has persuaded London's Colonial Development Corporation to advance the bulk of the cash needed for a Shire River power project now abuilding. He is negotiating a loan from West Germany, has received technical assistance from...
When Kennedy was first admitted to the hospital, he was strapped in a canvas and metal stretcher called a Stryker frame, but later he was switched to a larger Foster frame to accommodate his 6-ft. 2-in., 230-lb. bulk. Named for the Houston surgeon who devised it in 1939 for recuperating back-fracture patients, the Foster frame is a kind of reversible bed in which the patient is immobilized between a pair of sturdy canvas slings. Besides keeping the spine rigid-which is absolutely essential during the bone-healing period-the Foster frame helps prevent the patient from...
...Harbor was 93?; by 1956 it was up to $2.62, and it is now $3.10. Prescription items used to be less than 10% of all drug sales; now they are more than 30%, and they add up to a big business of more than $1.5 billion a year. With bulk buying of drugs by hospitals and government agencies, and massive sales of non-prescription items, the U.S. drug bill for 1964 is approaching $5 billion...
There was a vast amount of construction in the years 1912-1914. Widener Library ways built and provided a place for the bulk of the university's collection, dispensing with the scattered departmental libraries that had existed previously. Coolidge, Gibbs and Cruft Libraries were built to house the Physics and Chemistry Departments. Gore and Standish halls--now part of Winthrop House--sprung up along the river housing freshmen. The MTA was completed in 1912 and was welcomed by undergrads because it made travel to Boston easier. The Larz Anderson Bridge, completed in 1913, made it much easier...