Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resident student will perhaps receive not so much benefit from the N.Y.A. as the Commuter except indirectly. However, a fairly good chunk of the appropriation should be left over for the Houses and the Union when Dudley is taken care of. Library work, preparation of museum and library exhibits, and art work are all possible uses for the funds...
When Hitler began to take over Europe eight years ago, cutting off chunk by chunk the biggest foreign markets for U. S. pictures, Hollywood started to eye Latin America with new respect, pondered ways to build up foreign markets in the western hemisphere...
...Follies of 1941 (produced by Oscar F. Johnson, Edwin H. & Roy L. Shipstad ). Like its four annual predecessors, this big, glistening chunk of the new Ice Age will tour throughout the U. S. (23 cities this year). Today's fancy ice skaters have developed an astounding rapport with each other and with frozen water. They have already done about everything on skates it would be safe to show the children. To other, less accomplished skaters, the great ice stars already begin to seem like gods. To timid nonskaters they frequently seem on the point of killing themselves...
...Bucharest cagey King Carol, who had wooed the Axis too late in life, heard about it when he received a frantic telephone call from his Foreign Minister telling him that Germany and Italy demanded that Rumania submit the dispute to arbitration-i.e., surrender a whacking chunk of Transylvania. The King had until 5 o'clock the next morning. His only consolation was that Germany would guarantee to him what would be left of his Kingdom. He summoned his Crown Council to the Palace, and throughout most of the night King & Councilors cudgeled their brains for a dodge. Just...
Altogether the volume is an uncommonly interesting psychological document: touching, somehow admirable case history of an international vagabond, a semi-Dostoevskian, a naïve sophisticate and speculative researcher. It is also a huge chunk of undercured, surprisingly palatable ham. The author is nobody's fool, except perhaps (as he freely grants...