Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could get all of the Jews in this country and Europe to outmarry, it would leaven the lump of Gentile stupidity. There is enough ability concentrated in the few millions of Jews to raise the general average considerably if it were disseminated by intermixture. ... I do not know that they would be willing to do it, but, if they did, they would confer a great genetic boon upon mankind, and at the same time would solve their own problems...
...HEROES-Millen Brand-Simon & Schuster ($2). Two years ago Millen Brand's The Outward Room gave 100,000 readers a large lump in their throats. That simple, moving story described the redemption of a forgotten girl through the loving sympathy of a good man. The Heroes, slighter and non-lump-raising, describes the redemption of a forgotten man through the loving sympathy of a good girl. A plotless, subdued story it is laid in a New England Soldiers' Home, the apathy of whose inmates casts a pall over the novel...
...time the election was held last week, external pressure had molded the lump of lard back into one solid piece. Belgians were so frightened by what happened to an internally weak Czecho-Slovakia that they crowded to the polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...
...with two lesser objections. In the first place, with fine Republican indignation they demand the immediate enactment of the far-reaching reforms for the elimination of politics from W.P. A. administration recommended by the Shepherd Committee. The second measure for which the opposition is fighting is the abandonment of lump sum appropriations in favor of appropriations itemized by Congress for expenditure on stipulated projects. Even if there is a measure of justice in each of these criticisms, their adoption in the middle of a fiscal year would hardly be justified. As Lincoln once said in connection with a change...
...Begin monthly old-age insurance payments in 1940 instead of 1942. This would help already insured oldsters who now get nothing but lump-sum settlements of their claims, totaling only $12,000,000 since...