Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pugilistic gentlemen the country over spent a lively week. Those whose hands were not busy administering cut lips and swollen ears, gesticulated in airy explanation, signed contracts, punched bags and sparring partners...
...income taxes could no longer be denied, the country was presented with the Mellon bill, offered by the Administration to the people as the last word on that subject. When it met the test of impartial analysis, here, too, there appeared the motive to favor the few possessors of swollen incomes beyond the many of moderate means...
...greedy newspapers, swollen with the story, alarmed the finical Florenz. He wired his press agent to keep Imogene out of the newspapers...
...Retention of surtaxes on swollen incomes; restoration of the tax on excess profits, on stock dividends, profits undistributed to evade estates and taxes; rapidly progressive taxes on large estates and inheritances and repeal of excessive tariff duties, especially on trust-controlled necessities ot life, and of nuisance taxes on consumption, to relieve the people of the present unjust burden of taxation and compel those who profited by the War to pay their share ot the War costs and to provide the funds for adjusted compensation solemnly pledged to the veterans ot the World...
...pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs, stooping over habitually squeezes a nerve trunk between the rib and hip bone. The chief sign of the disease is an extreme pain when pressure is applied under the rib. At operation the swollen nerve ending and the tip of the rib may be removed, and in a correctly diagnosed and properly treated case, the cure of the pain is immediate and permanent. Thyroid gland. In the surgical section also, Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland, discussed the present standing of knowledge of the thyroid gland...