Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Cobb of Harvard last week proposed a new member: arthritis. Although the main cause of arthritis is "an x factor, as yet unknown," Dr. Cobb and his associates-reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that "poverty, grief and family worry" are intimately connected with the swollen knuckles and aching joint mice of rheumatoid arthritis...
Poughkeepsie turned out en masse to see them motor through: one family chopped 20 ft. out of their lilac hedge to clear the view. At Hyde Park, where the royal standard was flown from the portico, the grueling formality and handshaking ended (the royal hands were swollen). After church on Sunday, where Rector Frank Wilson dryly observed that attendance would improve if all parishioners would bring their guests as Mr. Roosevelt did, the King shed his necktie, ate hot dogs, drank beer (Ruppert's) at a "dream cottage" picnic, photographed the Indian storyteller and singer who performed. Squire Roosevelt...
...blood he had been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling his hideously swollen cheek, kept pounding wildly at his wheezing body...
...shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly an hour later, the rescue bell, reeling in the line he had attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck of the Squalus. There, two men working inside the chamber clamped the bell over a hatch like a swollen blister on the rump of the sunken ship. The hatch was opened and Lieut. J. C. Nichols and six seamen climbed into the bell...
With the addition of Eva Le Gallienna and Elsie Janis, well known stage personalities, to an already swollen list of celebrities, arrangements are finally complete for tonight's 1942 Freshman Smoker for which over 1500 will gather in Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall...