Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious telescoping of events and ideas, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Biblical prophecies govern all earthly events. They, under Judge Rutherford's leadership, distrust formalized religion, lump clergymen with financiers, politicians, the League of Nations and Lucifer, the last of whom they believe to be actively at large. In their scrutinies of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have concluded that three "cosmos" divide history. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II ended in 1914. The Bible Students once predicted that Cosmos III would end with the Kingdom of God in 2874 but currently they...
Aboard Roosevelt Special en Route to New York, April 8--A few strokes of President Roosevelt's pen on the $4,880,000,000 Work-Relief Bill today set in motion use of history's largest lump sum appropriation to put 3,500,000 men to work and end the depression...
...less sanguine. Small investors have not seen a discount security since the days of War-Savings stamps. Most private investors want their interest regularly. Instead, they will soon be asked to buy a $100 Government bond for, say, $76. The interest, compounded, will be paid at maturity in one lump sum represented by the difference between the purchase price and the face value...
...bill carries the largest lump sum appropriation in the world's history...
...That is bad news, very bad news," gravely remarked Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy in Manhattan one day last week. He referred to reports that at Islesboro, Me. an 11-year-old boy had found a 17-lb. lump of ambergris worth some...