Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's ten-man unit commands a healthy chunk of 826 votes. Less articulate chapter representatives from the grass-roots do not seem hesitant to listen to counsel that the delegation-hep on national AVC problems and politics-is happy to dispense. Chapter chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 and delegation head Reginald Zalles 2G are lining up a busy program of committee meets for their contingent: Richard G. Axt '46, Thomas R. Brooks '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Frank L. Haley 45, Selig S. Harrison '48, Russell H. Jackson 2L, William E. Nelson 1G, and Andrew E. Rice...
Nowadays, whenever Britain's imperial eye turns south towards Africa, there stands Zik astride a large slice of rich Nigerian cocoa and palm nut holdings, coal and tin and bauxite deposits. Zik has a handhold on a rich chunk of the Empire and he will...
...boss of Robbins is breezy, grey-haired Theodore Leavens, 46, who has thought up some of Robbins' best knickknacks. One item was inspired by a memory of his Montana boyhood near a mine with ore too poor to mine. Leavens put out a ring with a chunk of "real gold...
...appropriations committee tore a $383 million chunk out of the Agriculture Department's budget. Funds for the school-lunch program, crop insurance, the land-use and conservation program were sharply sliced. The appropriation for insurance of farm-tenant mortgages was cut from $15 million to $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson wailed that the cut (32%) would deprive veterans of the money needed to start farming, deprive small farmers of subsistence loans, destroy the price support of perishable farm products...
...dirt-floored shack on Half Moon Mountain, in New York's rugged little Ramapos, Gilbert Pitt lived for 81 years. He spent a big chunk of that time warding off social contacts and modern conveniences...