Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wisconsin end, preparations buzzed. Roads were oiled. An electric canceling' machine was sent to the Brule, Wis., post office to help Postmaster Harold E. Webster handle the swollen mail. Arrangements were also made to have air mail delivered specially to and from Brule...
...mile in competition under 4:20 more than six times. He holds with Paavo Nurmi the world's indoor mile record. Last month when he finished third in the Boston marathon (TIME, April 30) his first long distance race, his shoes had to be cut away from his swollen and bleeding feet. Clarence DeMar won at Boston. Ray finished with glazed eyes, a haggard face. At Long Beach, DeMar finishing seventh, was haggard, Ray happy. He kissed his hand to the Mayor as he crossed the finish line. "See those feet" he said in the locker room, crinkling...
...exist outside of the irresponsible pages of The Club-Fellow. Senator Joe Robinson had, it was true, a bronchial cold which kept him from his seat for five days. Senator Johnson, too, was briefly indisposed. But both were quite unmumped. Persons with respect for Senators viewed the gossip-swollen Club-Fellow with alarm. The sheetlet's irresponsibility was further revealed by its evident confusion of the Senate's two Robinsons. Still talking about "Senator Joe Robinson" The Club-Fellow said: "At any rate they [mumps] have kept Robinson quiet for a while about the oil scandals. Perhaps some...
Experience of the workaday kind that might, like the coffee grinder at the bottom of the sea, go on turning out a man's salt for the rest of his life. An ordeal of caricature for both innocent and the guilty has been won by the swollen importance of undergraduate publication activity in the eyes of a self-conscious few. In reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals...
...race. After him tottered Henigan, up among the winners at last. And after Henigan came Joie Ray, running on his toes. He didn't recognize his own coach, Johnny Behr, who caught him in a blanket. When his shoes were cut away from his swollen and blistered feet it was found that the nails of his big toes had been torn loose from the cuticle. The soles of his feet were bleeding horribly. On the rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension and suddenly cut. It seemed...