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Word: lumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, physically, at times, [Richard] felt epiphanically tragic. His doctor had died four year ago ('Unfortunately, I am terminally ill.') And that, in Richard's mature opinion, was definitely that. He had a large and lucent lump on the back of his neck. This he treated himself, by the following means: he kept his hair long to keep it hidden. If you went up to Richard Tull and told him he was in Denial, he would deny it. But not hotly...

Author: By Daley C. Hagar, | Title: Amis' Information on Our Shores | 5/12/1995 | See Source »

...added a shocked Nathan Lump '96. Clearly Lump is not among the Harvard minority which believes that clothing is a harmful artificial construct that is far better avoided in favor of the purity of nudity, the ultimate in meta-fashion...

Author: By Eleni N. Gage, | Title: Fashion Mitzvah* | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...provide cash assistance to more than 15 million people. One goal is to abolish the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which provides aid in a variety of forms to those who meet eligibility criteria. This means of assistance will be replaced by the dispersal of lump sums, "block grants" to states to use in assisting as they see fit those people who meet certain eligibility criteria...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Getting to Work | 3/8/1995 | See Source »

Under this system, states would receive a lump sum of cash which they could then use in any way they wish in order to assist low income people. The New York Times reports that "the block grant would be set at $15.3 billion per year, equal to the amount spent by the federal government in 1994, with no allowance for changes in population or in the economy...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Getting to Work | 3/8/1995 | See Source »

...look up Soldier Field. My old Analytic Geometry textbook, still flecked with insulation from the attic, has been sitting on my thigh like a lump of ice. By combining some formulas from it with the encyclopedia's stats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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