Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proud of his handiwork and mindful that the constitution he helped draft in 1915 was submitted and turned down mostly in one big lump, Mr. Smith last week urged his fellow delegates to split up the 1938 edition for submission to the people. Result: at next fall's election, voters will have a chance to accept or reject eight main sections, and a ninth catchall containing all the rest of the convention's handiwork...
Third and soggiest lump was the fact that Austria's imports have exceeded her exports. During the first four months of 1938, Austria's adverse balance was $7,600,000, an almost insurmountable addition to Germany's own $28,400,000 adverse balance for the same period. According to League figures, Germany's net imports of raw and semi-raw materials totaled 1,731,000 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,204.6 pounds) in 1936; Austria's 1,867.000. In foodstuffs and livestock for the same year, Germany imported 2,168,000 metric tons...
...three deep-water naval stations of Lough Swilly, Bere Haven and Cobh (Queenstown) which since 1921 have been maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will go into effect as soon as it is ratified by both Parliaments, will run for three years...
Most surprising feature of the accord was the settlement of the land annuities. Since 1932 "Dev" has stoutly insisted that Eire would never pay a single penny and the back payments meanwhile accumulated at the rate of some $20,000,000 a year. In settling for a lump $50,000,000 "Dev" drove the British to a hard bargain-the annuities were due to run until 1990, would have reached a total...
Modern psychology leans to the theory that the human mind is a piece of machinery, which can be measured by the way it acts on raw material. Thus the psychologists feed into the machine a set of questions called an intelligence test, lump the answers together as one product and weigh it, labeling the weight the I. Q. But one school of psychologists, believing the I. Q. is too crude a measure (like lumping apples, oranges and bananas all together and calling them fruit), has been trying to break up the mind into its separate parts. Last week the most...