Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific) ; some fatherly counsel from Dean Danny O'Brien of the inter mittent New York Hobo College to incipient boes : "It is dangerous when bumming a lump [begging a handout] to tease or provoke the dog. . . . When through with cans, pans, etc. in jungles [hobo camps] always leave them clean. . . . Don't mix too much with tramps or bums,* or you'll be demoralized...
...latest move in the simplification program is to lump the same Hearst Consolidated properties, with one exception-the profitable New York Evening Journal-in a wholly-owned subsidiary called Hearst Publications, Inc., which now proposes to offer $22,500,000 worth of bonds to the public. Nearly all the proceeds will be used to pay off bank loans and refund old bond issues, many carrying William Randolph Hearst's personal guarantee...
...they died before retirement their estates would receive 4% of their aggregate salaries in a lump sum (under Social Security...
...general practitioners can recognize the early signs of cancer when they see them. But they have been taught - as the Women's Field Army is out to teach women - to suspect the possibilities of cancer when a sore refuses to heal; when a lump forms in any part of the body, particularly the breast; when the uterus bleeds persistently or irregularly...
...Just before an examination it is legitimate to take some stimulant. ... It is certain that lump sugar gives almost immediate physical energy. Experiments show that alcohol in any form gives immediate energy followed by a period of depression greater than and lasting twice as long as the stimulation. A highball or cocktail is all right as a stimulant for a ten-minute interview but is worthless in preparing for a two-hour examination...