Word: lumping
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...world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given him, and several "secret" manuscripts. To the family priest he handed the coin, with instructions to give it to the poor. Then he unfolded and read over one of the papers: a daring plan which nine-year-old Archduke...
...President's message. No. 1 If was the fact that no forecast of business conditions 18 months ahead-let alone of Treasury revenues therefrom-is worth printing on slick paper. No. 2 If was that the Author had neglected to write in any lump sum for parity payments to the farmer, and this year every legislator, to a man, is the farmer's friend...
...owed the U. S. Treasury by Associated as the balance of an $8,700,000 settlement of a $50,000,000 tax claim. Mange wants RFC to lend NY PA NJ enough to pay off the bonds, pay the taxes; he is also asking for another lump for construction, $26,500,000 in all. The catch is that SEC must approve NY PA NJ's passing any part of the loan upstream to its parent, Associated...
Medical directors will receive "nominal salaries." Doctors will be paid a lump sum every three months, based on the number of patients they have treated and the kind of services they have ren dered. They will treat patients in their offices until the organization can build a clinic. If the plan prospers, the directors hope to engage a staff of doctors for full-time services...
...bath private homes. In the winter it is Palm Beach, Bermuda, Jamaica. In the spring Pinehurst, Asheville, Hot Springs-guests of hotel managements that occasionally offer more attractive bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager-for instance, a $500 bet that the player cannot jump over his tennis racket...