Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would limit its spiritual benefits to its own members. A university, nevertheless, and quite fortunately, is a place where idealistic influences have some chance of exerting a leavening power on the community. Mr. Gregg's complaint evidently is that the leaven of philosophy falls short of leavening the whole lump. In this we can all agree with him, while hoping and working for a better world...
...work of another brother in airplane manufacture, his youngest brother's service in the Navy, his younger sister's Washington work for the Red Cross. It was extremely affecting talk. Even hard-boiled reporters were moved. One old newshawk, tough as a boot, confessed to a throat lump big as a doorknob. Willkie himself had wet eyes. At long last, and perhaps in spite of himself, Wendell Willkie was finding out that a Presidential candidate must do more than grind away at his ax: he must dramatize himself...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...
Moving of the U. S. Fleet to the Atlantic means rear-guard tactics have played out. One form of action remains for the U. S.: to invite Japan to a round-table examination of the Pacific problem. Thus the U. S. might lump all its Pacific eggs, bargain on behalf of the Philippines, of The Netherlands East Indies, and even Australia, perhaps win for China better terms than are now in sight. The U. S. has much to offer hard-pressed, sorely drained Japan. The U. S. also has much to gain, including insurance of U. S. supply sources...
...examine their own conscience." Before the war, asserted M. Prouvost, Britain had promised to send over 26 divisions; but when the test came, France kept men 48 years old under arms while Britain failed to mobilize 28-year-olds. Finally the French Minister went so far as to lump the Ally with the Enemy: "We ask [England] not to make London a nest of agitation by politicians and separatists. Our foreign policy will not be dictated by England, Germany, or Italy...