Word: swollenness
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...dusty corner, and the failure of a last-ditch HDC presentation of "Juno and the Paycock" didn't add any blue stars for prestige to that side of the ledger. Fat with its "Joan" power and profits, the Theatre Workshop bounded into 1947-48 like a herd of swollen gazelles...
Summing up, the underlying causes of our inflation can be attributed to: swollen purchasing power flowing from full employment and higher incomes; the continual lag of purchasable goods and food behind demand; the aggravating intangible of national selfishness; the absence of anti-inflationary taxation or monetary policies; and finally, the sapping drain on the economy caused by export of goods without imports in exchange. The interplay of these factors causes the present state of prices...
...seat part of the time. Already, Class rather than House priority has proved both more fair and accommodating. And the early seat application deadlines enable the H.A.A. high command to minimize accurately the stag environs and maximize the more colorful areas of the arena. Taking conscientious account of the swollen enrollment of the University, the inevitability of some lines, and the steam age era design of the Stadium... the new plan works quite well...
...week after the first Varsity game of the season, R. C. Harlow cuts his swollen pre-season squad and Clarence Elijah Boston takes over the newlyformed outfit. This year's Jayvee squad is scheduled to be picked in about three weeks...
...Weather Ahead. Postwar Oxford's swollen enrollment is now giving Lewis too much to do to spare him time for extracurricular writing. During the "long vac" this summer he has been hard at work on his volume for "Oh-Hell," which is Oxford's name for the Oxford History of English Literature (still in preparation). During the college year ahead, in addition to his crowded lectures, he will also be busy "tooting" his 18-odd tutorial pupils. At regular intervals they will come, singly or in pairs, to read him their essays in his handsome, white-paneled college...