Word: swollenness
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...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...
Such a project could not be realized before next year and more immediate ice is desirable. The Boston Arena, now used by the Varsity, is booked up solid for the winter, and other nearby rinks are owned by private clubs with memberships so swollen in these inflationary times that all University requests have been spurned...
...high pay of factories and the luxuries of city life had swollen the drift from the land into a steady tide. Even Quebec, against the ancient tradition of living on the land, was turning disturbingly urban, and the Catholic Church was deeply concerned. Last week, in a pastoral letter signed by Cardinal Villeneuve, three archbishops and 14 bishops, the Church raised its powerful voice in a plea : go back to the land. The Church wanted to stop not only the movement to the cities but emigration...
...Swollen by the purchases of upperclassmen, ticket sales for the Freshman Inaugural Ball to be held from 9:00 to 1:00 o'clock Friday evening in the three Common Rooms of the Union have soared to the 200 mark, only 100 couples short of the building's capacity...
...thread of a story as it follows the overlanders in their struggles to get the. cattle safely past crocodiles, swollen rivers, poison weed, dry water holes, stampedes...