Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large number of Americans. But the absurdity lies not in Mr. Mellon's ruling, it lies in the wording of the prohibition laws. However much power fanatical Drys may believe our government to have over the rest of the world, the makers of the law had no swollen imaginations. They merely lacked foresight. The new ruling is at best a make-shift and it can be expected that at the next meeting of Congress the cause of the absurdity will be properly remedied...
...unprecedented thaw of snow in the South Kurdistan mountains [Mesopotamia] the Tigris burst its left bank 17 miles north of Bagdad, leaving that city an island in a flooded area of 100 square miles. Both the Zab and the Little Zab rivers between Mosul and Bagdad are pouring their swollen tribute into the waters of the Tigris. It will be impossible to repair the breach until the river has fallen ten feet...
...Tierney. Although it is not probable that any of them will be able to play in the Brown game this Saturday, it is fairly certain that all will be ready for the Elis on the 19th. Tierney and Crocker, both out with bad ankles, and Coburn, who has a swollen leg, are the three regulars who suffered most from Saturday's hard struggle. Chapin, who hurt his arm in the Centre game, may be back on condition this week, but Gehrke, whose broken jaw, received in the contest with the southerners, is still far from well...
...fame of Dean Briggs' anecdote is now extended well beyond college circles. In a recent issue of the "Globe" the leading editorial quoted it (with the original modest fifty dollar stakes now swollen to several hundred!) as the "classic example of the most efficient way to nip threatened blackmail in the bud. The little story appears to be as susceptible of wide application as many an ancient parable. Harvard is to be congratulated for having presided at its birth...
...them to suppose that every other tradition has suffered in similar relapse. Accordingly the old and suspicious graduate will be watching with malevolent eye the actions of the college off for the summer. Occasionally he is rewarded by a freshman wandering from the straight and narrow path. The story, swollen by ingenious rumor, proceeds on its devasting path about the country. The results are discouraging...