Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violently that they cease to exist as ordinary stars. On the surface protons and electrons coalesce into neutrons; the neutrons "rain" down toward the centre of gravity and, having no repellent electrical charges, pack close together. End product is a "neutron star"?a small, dead, enormously dense lump of matter...
...climbed up on the stump of a pine-tree with one of those monster-radishes in one hand and a lump of hard soldiers' bread in the other, and joked, between mouthfuls...
Apparently Ford was not seriously hurt for he picked himself up. Last night, however, he was nursing a lump on his forehead...
...more bitter in protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load of coal became exhausted, sticks, stones and bottles took their place. The police used clubs...
...Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition. Two weeks later he died, officially of bronchial pneumonia. But in the interval his wife and half-brother had seen him bound hand & foot, with two teeth knocked out, a gash over his eye, a lump on his chest and so badly bruised that he "looked like a raw piece of meat all over...