Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson, the Institute's young (40), affable director who suc ceeded Dr. Breasted, explained last week that the Institute used to get fat annual appropriations from the Rockefellers' General Education Board. In 1936 the Board, which had started to distribute its capital gave the Institute a final lump-sum endowment of $2,000,000. The Institute has since been operating mostly on the income from this, which amounts to about a third of the former yearly grants. Few other U. S. diggers are working the war-clouded Near East. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, however...
...added that it might be easier for students to contribute just a dime or so at a time, or the change from buying a daily paper, rather than making their donations in lump sums. Largest response yesterday came from Eliot House, with about $45 collected...
...from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian or Indian. Not until 1929 (three years after Greenway had died, four...
...world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given him, and several "secret" manuscripts. To the family priest he handed the coin, with instructions to give it to the poor. Then he unfolded and read over one of the papers: a daring plan which nine-year-old Archduke...
...President's message. No. 1 If was the fact that no forecast of business conditions 18 months ahead-let alone of Treasury revenues therefrom-is worth printing on slick paper. No. 2 If was that the Author had neglected to write in any lump sum for parity payments to the farmer, and this year every legislator, to a man, is the farmer's friend...