Word: lumped
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...reading of the Federal Water Power Act leads to but one conclusion and that is to insert in capital accounts the actual legitimate cost of construction, limited to actual amount of money paid therefor. . . . This automatically dispenses with the proposition that there can be included in these capital accounts lump sum or percentage overheads, for engineering supervision, management, financing, development. Such items cannot and must not be included." One large drop of utility "water" was extracted by Solicitor Russell when, as a working example of what he meant, he struck $500.000 from the capital account of Cumberland River Power...
...camping with Steinmetz, a young Dutchman wanted to blow up a stump. For dynamite he began mixing potassium chlorate and powdered sulphur but pressed too hard on a lump in the chlorate. A blinding flash, and the youth was found all bloody. Others were excited but Steinmetz, frantic, outdid them, jabbered English, German, gibberish, hopped from bed to chairs till quieted...
...subject termed "Cramming" is a favorite with most editorial writers. Every college student knows so much about cramming. Whether he has indulged in this mild sport of learning "a la lump" or not, he is aware of the advantages and the evils. The chief complaint against cramming is that a large body of material gone over at a rapid pace late at night does not "stick." This is, indeed, most unfortunate. If only cramming had among other things, certain adhesive qualities, the worries of many students would be at an end. Those who are veterans would be exonerated from that...
Life subscription? Sure-if not too much of a lump sum blow for youngsters just getting their sea-legs in business...
Marda wanted to explore-and incidentally to escape Montmorency; she and Lois ventured into the gloom, relishing a fear that was "a kind of deliciousness." A crop of nettles, a dead cow, and by the stairs a prostrate lump that was a man. Sleepily he stirred, instinctively levelled his pistol at them; accidentally it went off, nipped Marda in the hand. The girls explained they were merely out for a walk; the man snarled it was time they gave up walking-for he was a Black-&-Tan, exhausted from days of guerrilla warfare, and they were the Irish aristocracy that...