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Even down here in the heart of the Sugar Bowl we know that you've just got to have nice, sour lemons to make good lemonade. Give Mr. Harper his lump sugar, but continue making the rest a little on the tart side for us good-natured fellows...
...first such controversies in which he engaged was over the widely held notion of late 19th-Century science that a fertilized egg before starting to grow by cleavage (cell division)-and even for a time afterwards -was just so much undifferentiated raw material of life-like a lump of butter, or a pile of butter balls. Indeed one biologist did compare the early cleavage cells to "balls in a pile," and pronounced the act of cleavage at this stage to be "a mere sundering of homogeneous materials capable of any fate." The start of localized function-of specific organs with...
...railroad buying for half of its sales in even a good railroad buying year. At present, 80% of Baldwin's unfilled orders come from its hedges against bad locomotive business. Of this, Mid-vale's $18,500,000 backlog adds up to the biggest single lump, 73%. Its presiding genius, handsome, abstemious Dr. Harry L. Frevert, lives from one ballistic test to the next, his only concern the race between armor-piercing shells and shellproof armor...
...Abolish lump-sum payments to the survivors of insured dead, substitute monthly pensions for widows and dependent children until they are 16 (18 if they remain in school...
...just couldn't sit up. [Father Greenfield demonstrated how the child's head flopped to & fro on its neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family. He was subject to fits. Caring for him ceaselessly...