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Word: lumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fabled splurge, NBC had bought out their packaging firm, Barry and Enright Productions, Inc., for $2,200,000, also gave them long-term contracts as producers at $100,000 each per year. Fortnight ago, burned by the investigation, Barry and Enright closed out the contracts for a lump settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...Pattern. With discontent so widespread, many a community has set up comprehensive schools that lump grammar, technical and secondary modern schools under one roof with as many as 1,000 students. The new schools (about 90 so far) remodeled on a familiar U.S. pattern: the big, inclusive high school. They have headaches also familiar to Americans, including Teddy boys who carry flick knives to class, smash windows, abuse masters. But they do solve the basic problem: how to give late starters a chance to switch from one track to another. Says Headmaster George Rogers of London's Walworth Secondary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quiet Revolution | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Yorker, is just out of stir and determined to go straight; he is a solid, workmanlike thug, though, and the old gang wants him back. They tempt him with a sex moll (Linda Cristal), "just up from Puerto Rico and full of sugar cane." Will he have one lump or two? He hesitates-then takes the whole bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...peddled enough other new shows to land enough business for his production company (estimated net worth: $2,000,000) to keep it busy for four years. The Douglas operating formula, E+E=$$$ (education+ entertainment = dollars), was paying off, and if the Douglas critics did not like it, they could lump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet Success | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...roving surgeon flew in, and at Dr. Dooley's request removed what he could of the lump, sent it to the laboratory for testing. Last week Dr. Dooley was back in the U.S. on the strength of the lab report: sarcoma-a fast-spreading cancer, often quickly fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jungle Physician | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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