Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire field, for that matter, does not seem to scare its concentrators and a goodly number of them frankly, and often disappointedly, admit it can be taken as a "bull" field. Examinations are very often passed after a day or two of cramming and except only such better tutors as Mercier, Penny, and Seznac the tutorial can be disregarded. Romance Languages, is the field most nearly approaching the prep school student's idealization of college life, you will get just as much out of it as you put into...
Well-liked himself, Allport is ably abetted by Sanford in Psych. 30, which merges with government in the study of public opinion, but which has been accused of being "bull in specialized terms." The physiological angle has been more fully exploited in 22 by Morgan, who is rated good. Beebe-Center tries to cover too much of the subject of human and animal motivation in Psych. 12. Cattell's Psych. 32 not only tends to be repetitious, but piles on 300 pages a week on the subject of personality...
...will have $55 billion to spend, with almost nothing to spend it on. Of this, taxes will sop up about $18 billion, savings and investments will absorb another $20 billion. The $17 billion that remains is the dangerous "wild money" which will roll around the china shop like a bull, crashing through prices, breaking up ceilings and walls, unless the Government finds a way to ring its nose. And to complicate matters a large part of this money will be in the hands of wage earners while the proposed taxes will fall heaviest on salaried people and investors...
...began to land men along the coast, probably about 12,000. From one of the coves a U.S. Navy PT boat whirled out, roaring like an infuriated bull, slashed into the convoy, sent a torpedo fairly into the side of a Jap second-class cruiser. She was sinking when the PT whirled away...
Bung Young was the real prima donna. He carried on the golden bull (a vital part of the scene), carried it off, came back on, went back off, brought back the bull, and, in general, made a cynosure of his sinecure...