Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welding" operation, now widely used, has been successful in many cases. The surgeon, after turning the eyeball around, first punctures it in several places to drain the fluid between retina and choroid. Then he seals the two membranes together by heating them. The inflamed, swollen retina and choroid close up like inflated inner and outer tubes and eventually heal tightly together...
Prior to the swollen enrollments of the Law School at war, the number of students from the middle 'thirties on showed a downward trend from the peak year of 1936-37 a checkback yesterday showed. At this point the total...
...left foot dragged the ground, he developed a stoop. He suffered from an infected sinus, swollen glands in the neck, continual headaches and stomach cramps. To relieve these pains, his physician gave him a proprietary drug compounded of strychnine and belladonna. It was called Dr. Koester's Antigas Pills...
...first U.S. war babies were ready for school. The U.S. Office of Education announced that first-grade school classes will be 9% bigger this fall, because of the large numbers of babies born during the first year of the draft. The U.S. will have swollen first-grade classes for another six years, to handle the 17,047,539 U.S. babies born during the war years...
...make big Baptist Dan Poling a potent figure in U.S. Protestantism. He throws most of his weight into two-fisted action, rather than into theological ideas. In college, he played football on Saturdays and preached on Sundays; once he appeared in the pulpit with two black eyes and a swollen knee. In 1912 he ran for governor of Ohio. Even if he had won, he was too young (27) to take office legally; but Dan Poling thought it was a fine opportunity to stump the state for Prohibition...