Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until the budget is made up no plans will be forthcoming for cooperation with the Cambridge Unemployment Relief Committee or any other such body. A lump sum of $500 has been turned over to that committee by the Student Council at M. I. T. but final distribution of the money available for the Harvard Council in contingent upon action to be taken by President Lowell in regard to the Stadium collections...
...last week's dinner, Jackie Cooper fell asleep on the bosom of Cinemactress Dressier. Director King Vidor drew a checkerboard on the tablecloth, played lump-sugar checkers with Cinemactress Eleanor Boardman (Mrs. King Vidor), beat her. Remarks...
...over by the H. A. A., it was decided yesterday at a meeting of the Interhouse Athletic Committee. Lowell, Leverett, and Dunster Houses will retain the management of their own courts but have agreed to honor the H. A. A. participation ticket. At the end of the year a lump sum, based upon the number of times tickets have been presented in the course of the year, will be paid each of the recalcitrant Houses to partially cover the cost of upkeep...
...sent notes to China and Japan urging them to confine military operations to "the requirements of international law," thus tacitly refusing to invoke the famed Kellogg Pact. Outside China all this seemed perhaps academic, dull. To Chinese "students," young firebrand-patriots who are the leaven in China's lump, it seemed: 1) that the Great Powers had betrayed China into Japan's hands; 2) that in appealing to the Powers gullible Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang had made this betrayal possible. For him, Death! In the streets of Nanking, Shanghai, Peiping students saw, read, roared: "Dadjang! Dadjang...
...enough for celebration. Not so the logical French. They complained bitterly that the German statesmen had come with no definite plan, had made no concrete offers to improve Franco-German relations, that they had carefully kept every conversation to a series of polite generalities. There is a large intractable lump of the French population who want no traffic whatever with France's hereditary enemy. Fortunately they are far from a majority, but the rest demand results. Newspapers did their best to answer the question that all Frenchmen were asking, "What good will...