Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston. The first recommends a change in the budget system to correspond with that now in use in New York. This is the so-called "segregated budget" based on the estimates of the heads of departments and other officials showing in detail the specific items, whereas at present the lump appropriation budget is used in Boston. The report also recommends a standardizing of the salaries and wages of city officials with a possibility of obtaining co-operation with the civil service commission...
...necessary for some of the men who have only contributed a small sum to hand in another contribution. Surely nearly every member of the University will be able to give $25 before next September and, if necessary, students will be allowed to send in their contributions in a lump...
...illustrate his point, the story of the rough soldier-hero at the dinner-table of his commanding officer. It was in India, and, while the soup was being served, ice as precious in that climate, as diamonds, was passed around to cool the champagne. The soldier took a lump, glanced round, and dropped it in his soup: and silently, apparently as a matter of course the officers followed his example...