Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uniformity characteristic of some educational institutions. But individualism has been carried too far and has become not the right to maintain one's own ideas and customs among many but the habit of remaining oblivious to most other points of view and contemptuous of those that are known. The lump has become too great for the leaven...
...called for his pick, and he called for his shovel, and he called for his gougers three." So, apparently, runs the ancient anthem of the coal states as unearthed by the Coal Commission. The song should strike a responsive chord within the undergraduate shivering by his sputtering lump of coal as well as within struggling householders and large manufacturers. But contrary to expectation the Commission puts the blame for high prices upon the wholesalers rather than upon the retailers. That the retailers are blameless should, however, be evident enough anyhow, for with the large number of retailers, each must deal...
...since the recoil of a certain obese comedian from the comedy centers of California a gentleman named Walter Hiers has been striving for the heavyweight custard pie championship. Sixty Cents An Hour is his latest. For that strange stratum of the commonwealth which derives amusement from watching a ton lump of humanity at his wooing the venture is doubtless entertaining...
...assassination of Senor Salvador Segui-nicknamed Noy del Sucre (Lump of Sugar)-a labor leader, and of Francisco Comas, his chief lieutenant, has produced a crisis...
...selfsame hour? What student of English 35a would not be unlifted for having enjoyed Billy Sunday's conception of manna? Even the sleepy, rising late after an evening's enjoyment, might ponder while drinking their coffee, whether Otis Skinner were up yet, and whether he'd ask for one lump...