Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicate refining methods to isolate the two metals that he wished to examine more closely-he clearly beheld this intervening shadow. It appeared in the wavelength spectra of Nos. 60 and 62 as a line that belonged to neither yet was identical in both. Forthwith, though he had no lump of new metal in his hand, he was able to announce that be had discovered Element No. 61-one of the five unknowns predicted by Science's periodic arrangement of all the 92 elements...
Professors are, after all, rather idiotic. George Boas from his study at Johns Hopkins would admit that, for he himself continues as a professor of English literature. Yet idiocy--this kind of idiocy is the leaven in the lump of mediocrity and cultural decadence, so often the apparent heritage of the nation. Without it Ellis Island would be the gateway to oblivion instead of the open sesame to a fairly interesting modern nation. With it America can still believe that such outbursts of insanity as the Cathcart case may not plunge her into complete international disfavor...
...with all the force of an indomitable will to the style and title of "Queen" (TIME, Nov. 30), and by way of "compromise" at length possessed herself of Marlborough House, where she had resided as Princess of Wales. The present Prince of Wales, gossips opined, might "like it or lump...
...backers are the trustees of the American Fund for Public Service-that lump of money which was made into a trust fund by earnest young Charles Garland of Boston, who inherited $1,000,000 and refused to accept it because he was that rarest of idealists, a socialist who applied his precepts to himself. The fund has been nearly doubled by careful investments. Its custodians stated that they were ready to devote $17,000 a year "or more" to this publication, with the condition that the founders raise an additional $10,000 a year. And what will this magazine...
...French domestic debt. Specific provisions: 1) A head tax of 20 francs (80c) a year on everyone in France. 2) A tax on all "real property" amounting in general to one and a half times the income derived from it in 1925, and payable either in a lump sum or in installments over 14 years. 3) A tax on all business, amounting to one-half the average yearly profits for the past three years, and payable in 14 yearly installments. 4) A tax upon all securities* and investments, providing that for 14 years 15% of their yield shall be paid...