Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current show, Lachaise's academic portrait studies were elegant as ever, but to a new generation of untutored eyes his swollen little abstractions of parts of the body seemed simply unpleasant, and the mountainously female figures on which his real fame depends carried bovine principles of beauty to a brutal and humorless extreme. Some of his figures were life-size or larger, most of the others were only about a foot high, but they all loomed...
...editor of Texas' humor magazine was not kidding. Ex-G.I. John Bryson Jr. had polled his fellow students and found that 66.8% admitted to cheating at one time or another during their schooling. The dean of men, said Editor Bryson, agreed that t -e student body-now swollen to 17,500 students-was too big for effective supervision...
...destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct demobilization of the swollen Navy, serving as assistant chief of BuPers (Bureau of Naval Personnel). If past averages hold, he'll spend about three years as superintendent...
...inking of how the new group the Texas suggest naming if "The American Association of College and University Students" will use the influence of the country's veteran-swollen 2,500,000 student population lies in its clear opposition to the quota system and its expressed intention of stimulating student government activity...
...universities and colleges provide more reasonable professorial salaries, Professor Sumner Slichter is using pressure group tactics to solve a problem whose implications are nationwide. His remedies might well precipitate more difficulties than they would solve. While the immediate hardships of fixed pre-war faculty salaries in a period of swollen living costs merit alleviation, no solution should ignore the more permanent problem of seeking the best over-all means for financing all phases of education...