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Word: lumping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Baron Lyle of Westbourne, whose firm of Tate & Lyle is the biggest sugar refinery in Britain (the baron's coat of arms includes interlaced sugar canes surmounted by a defiant rooster). Baron Lyle is the sponsor of the "Mr. Cube" cartoons, which feature an animated lump of sugar with definite opinions against proposals to nationalize Britain's sugar industry (TIME, Dec. 19). The "Mr. Cube" cartoons, he declared frostily, would continue to appear on his sugar packages, at least until the King dissolves Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Slow Starter | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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