Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coffee cups. With what a sinking of the heart they crackled through those layers. Why, except for an extra page about religion, and the fact that there was no "immorality" on the front page (all crime news was segregated in an inside section) the Pioneer was the same streaky lump it had been before...
...Waltham) into the arena. An animal lover contributed two cats, one live and one dead, followed by a tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...
...conducted earlier in the year. It has also been suggested that instead of the present method of making a separate drive for each charitable fund that a budget system be adopted at the University which will take care of all such projects and could be subscribed to it a lump...
...arrangement has been concluded with the Aetna Life Insurance Company, which is handling the Senior class fund endowment insurance, offering the opportunity of paying the total of the premiums in a lump sum at the outset. This plan, which is designed to save the trouble of paying premiums throughout a period of 25 years, calls for a payment of about $130 for every $250 in the face value of the policy. When this policy matures in 1950, it will represent the original $130 with about four per cent interest. The payment of the premiums in a lump sum effects...
...veins. But injections are troublesome, expensive, often painful. Come Mendel, Wittgenstein, Wolffenstein, three wise men of Berlin, professors at the University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through the pores of the tongue. The effect is reported to equal that of injections. Thus...