Word: swollenness
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Before Pearl Harbor Sherwood began to assemble his branch under the auspices of the Coordinator of Information, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Dorfovan. Last June the organization was transferred in toto to Elmer Davis' OWI. Now swollen to 1,800 employes, it has a high command in Washington, a sprawling operations unit in Manhattan, another in San Francisco and 18 outposts throughout the world. Its province is all the world outside of the continental U.S. and Latin America...
Sept. 3-Reached river bottom below extreme peaks, bathed, washed bandages, dried feet. One toe very badly swollen...
...painfully, the Jap doctor laughed and a Jap nurse futilely painted them with iodine. Removed to Kiangwan prison, he was put in solitary confinement in a 5-by-10-ft. cell. His weight had dropped from 160 to 80 Ib. When he could no longer walk on his twice-swollen feet, he was sent to Shanghai General Hospital under military guard, there had his toes amputated...
...flies, the tiny "no-see-ums" that announce themselves only by a sting, and the mosquitoes. ("Why, over at Watson Lake, a mosquito landed on the airport and they put 85 gallons of gas into it before they realized it wasn't a bomber.") The insects made sweating, swollen hands look like grey fur. The engineers slapped and cursed till they got head nets and gloves...
Gold in the Veins. The main advance is in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The whole body, not just the swollen joints, is treated. The principal idea is rest. "Many patients state that all they do is rest [but] examination . . . will frequently show that they are tense and that their muscles are in more or less constant spasm." Rest relaxes this spasm...