Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...hold a country as large as the United States with a population not equal to that of New York city. Our greatest danger is our unpeopled interior. We are in this respect in a position practically of that of the United States in the War of the Revolution. The bulk of our population is, as yours was, on the eastern seaboard. Australia therefore, welcomes immigrants wherever they may come from. We hope to fulfill the late Colonel Roosevelt's wise suggestion and 'fill up our waste spaces...
...Angell's works which have stirred the publics of England and the continent and brought statements of high commendation from such men as Lord Esher, President of the Imperial Defence Committee of Great Britain, and Sir Frank Lascelles, former British Ambassador in Berlin, and from the great bulk of the English press...
...lower teams, and the scrimmages served that purpose. The substitutes found little trouble in the light Rindge line-ups, and ploughed through for scores almost at will, especially against the schoolboy regulars. H. S. Grew was back in uniform and went through a light workout. Signals constituted the bulk of work given the first two elevens. Coach Ryan is troubled principally over the backfield situation, which is so critical because of the many injuries. A new possibility for a running position showed up in R. Lockwood, a third string fullback, who played brilliantly in the scrimmage. He displayed a consisent...
There are particularly good things, too, in the political supplement of the June number, and there are other poems and sketches that make good reading but where the bulk of undergraduate writing has not failed to reflect the difficulties of this period of suspense, Mr. King's poem takes a solid place in our hearts by touching on this very topic...
...considered just or unjust in recitation requirements and marking--in fact, every "what to do" and "don't do it" about his courses in the catalog of undergraduate criticism. Separating the chaff of the chronic growler, the captious individual and the carping dispenser of profane fault-findings from the bulk of the comment would still leave a deal of wholesome material worthy of honest reflection. This cannot be done, unfortunately, and there is no means of getting the undergraduate views on a course to the instructor, other than some action initiated by the latter. This happens occasionally...