Word: bumping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...FRANKLIN BUMP, Secretary, Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...constitution was formed based upon that of the National Civil Service Reform League. The following officers were elected: President, S. D. Demmon; secretary and treasurer, W. Bump, of the University of Wisconsin. An executive committee was formed of five members, chosen from Harvard, University of Chicago, Northwestern and Johns Hopkins. A general committee was appointed consisting of one delegate from each club in the league. The vice-presidents will be appointed by the president from the faculties of the colleges represented. A banquet was held in the evening...
...Hendrick Fairfail, Mariner" is the story of a shipwrecked sailor of the seventeenth century who must have been possessed of an enormous bump of inventiveness, judging from the remarkable expedient by which he escaped from his uninhabited South Sea Island. The story is well written...