Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Building, with all the power of a court to swear witnesses and take testimony, these investigators proceeded to summon the chairmen and treasurers of the three leading parties. The Committee was resolved that "every line of inquiry" should be followed, that its reports should "not deal with lump totals, but with detailed contributions and expenditures...
...Cadillac is $20. By count on last Saturday night I discovered that 200 cars were parked on University property. Now if this rule is to be strictly enforced these 200 students will probably have to have their cars in garages. If they do, the expense taken in a lump sum will be very large. Assume that 100 of the cars are Fords. The owners of these cars will be force to pay $14 a month for nine months--a total of $12,600. The owners of the other 100 cars will have to pay approximately $18,000. In other words...
...established one of the first "neighborhood houses"-in Allen Street, Manhattan. Died. Dutch Louie, 26, famed yegg, gunman; in Cherry Hill, Manhattan. His shooting recalled that of his alleged brother, Charles ("Potatoes") Casazza, in the saloon of Louis Poggi, known as "Louis the Lump," and the killing of "Kid Twist" and his lieutenant by Poggi at Coney Island twelve years...
...noise, which he feared, with the rabbit, made the same response to both. This process of association was also used to effect cures. One baby, long under observation, was afraid of fur or anything resembling fur. The cure consisted in bringing animals into his presence while he ate., A lump of sugar was given to him and an animal brought close at the same time. After a period, his relish of the sugar offset his fear of the animal...
...authorized by law but not appropriated for, be commenced. These included work preliminary to payment of the soldier bonus, increased salaries for government "field workers" under the Reclassification of Salaries Act, increased salaries for firemen and policemen of the District of Columbia. The expense was to come out of lump sum appropriations for the fiscal year 1924-25. This practice would later result in a deficit, but Congress would be able to provide the necessary funds in December. It seemed, however, that no method could be found to refund to income tax payers, who had paid their entire...