Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less than one third of the Deputies, the rest absenting themselves because the Budget details became fully known in the committee stage (TIME, Dec. 5). Balance is to be achieved at 9,502,700.000 marks, a figure higher by 367,500,000 marks than last year, but actually swollen not by extravagance but by the fact that Germany's reparations' burden rises during the coming year 750,000,000 marks to its final maximum annual total of 2,500,000,000 marks...
...allegedly accepting party contributions from commoners who were raised to the peerage during his term as Prime Minister (1916-22). Because this charge has been shrewdly ignored by Mr. George, a new one was started recently. By word of mouth it was alleged that his private purse has been swollen from his secret party fund...
Three throat operations, the last performed without an anesthetic, had not daunted Bratiano's spirit. He composed himself to sleep, inhaling pure oxygen, his swollen throat kept open by an inserted silver tube. As midnight tolled from a distant spire, the Premier stirred and seemed to rally. Then drops of an evil pus were discovered in his throat. Blood poisoning had set in. The great statesman who had doubled the area of Rumania during his eleven premierships was told that Death would surely claim him before dawn...
...outline and thickened. Dr. Senftner told the three to flip their hands over. The backs were covered with similar sores. One of the patients had the same sort of lesion on his face. All three had rather high fever, pain in their hands and in one case a swollen lymph node in the armpit. Dr. Senftner went out into the cow-yard and found the dairy-man's herd of 13 cows all sick, their udders and teats pocked with pustules. The diagnosis was: cowpox, long a rare disease among animals, as well as among humans. The treatment: applications...
...Swollen beyond one billion, would have been the ten months' receipts figure had the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s sales (of 16,000 stores) been included...