Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were devoured downstairs by goggle-eyed scullery-maids. Upstairs in her boudoir the lady of the house was feasting on the same spicy journalistic fare, for to the upper crust the paper's selling point was that it presented the week's scandal news in toto and in one lump. Up, up, up climbed circulation. By last week News Of The World had reached the record total of 3,350,000. And the current issue was typical of the paper's output for the past three decades...
...sold at $2.50 each. Twelve trustees would run the Association without pay. At least 103 "officers" for the Association would be chosen by lot, their "salaries" to run up to $50,000 a year. Practically, these lucky "officers" would have nothing to do but collect their "salaries" in a lump sum. Of the Association funds, 44% would go for relief, 44% for "salaries," 12% for operating expenses...
...will face McCluskey and the Italian ace Cerati, who conquered the N.Y.A.C. runner this summer. Other probable entrants include Malcolm Millard '36, in the discus and Richard Johnson '36, in the javelin. Milon G. Green '36, will be entered in the high hurdle and may also try the broad lump, while Edwin E. Calvin '35, is a possible candidate for honors in the 100-meter and the 400-meter relay...
...operating room, laid out on the operating table by prisoner-nurses who are paid 5? a day. Sheets were spread over him so as to cover the scar of his old rupture operation, expose only his left leg. Just above the knee of that leg was an exceedingly painful lump the size of a lemon...
...lump lay beneath the scar of an incision made by a Manhattan doctor at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled six years ago. To stitch up a hernia which Warden Lawes had incurred two years before while wrestling at New Orleans with Chaplain Robert Booth of Clinton Prison, the doctor had cleverly taken a strip of muscle from the patient's leg. The rupture incision healed quickly. The leg wound, on the contrary, took three months to close and ever since had given Warden Lawes trouble. Surgeon Sweet recently diagnosed the growth as a tumor which...