Word: lumping
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...happened to make a remark to President Griswold: "Look, Princeton has its Jefferson. Why don't we have Franklin at Yale?" Griswold promptly began consulting with the Yale University Press, then started raising the money. Most of the $600,000 which the project will cost came in one lump from TIME Inc. on behalf of LIFE, the Philosophical Society contributing the balance. After that, Griswold and Roberts decided to go ahead...
...Piano from Mozart to Bartok (Beveridge Webster; Perspective). The house of Steinway's 100th anniversary this year gives a chance to lump a music-hall variety program (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Bartok) on one disk. Versatile Pianist Webster runs the gamut without stumbling and with considerable brilliance...
...hero of A Summer Day has a heartache he did not help to make. He is a small Indian boy, an orphan shipped barefoot and alone from Missouri to an Indian school in Oklahoma. This is the kind of situation that is usually played for a lump in the throat, but Author Stafford never plays that way. What the reader gets from A Summer Day is a dry mouth and a hot, hopeless feeling of sympathy for the boy in his loneliness...
...Erwin Wilson is the boss of 3,500,000 uniformed men & women and nearly 1,500,000 civilians. So far, Wilson has been able to bring into the department only eleven men of his own choosing. "An awfully small piece of yeast," as he says, "for such a big lump of dough." The real managers of the Defense Department are a few hundred generals, admirals and civilian bureaucrats...
...Severing connections with the Arena brings a lump to my throat," Brown was quoted as saying yesterday. "I hate to see it go, but you can't beat figures in dollars and coats...