Word: swollenness
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...primarily industrial Catalonia, her population swollen with refugees, her few railroads and highways glutted with military supplies, the possibility of famine was so urgent last week that Barcelona's press bureau sent cables to U. S. Leftist sympathizers appealing for food. Should France and England grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain-an increasing probability-and thus enable Generalissimo Francisco Franco legally to blockade Leftist ports, little food from the outside could get to Leftist Spain...
Hamlet (by William Shakespeare; produced by Maurice Evans). Biggest Shakespeare news in the theatre last season was a Julius Caesar cut to half its ordinary size. Biggest Shakespeare news this season may well be a Hamlet swollen to twice its usual bulk. Last week Actor-Manager Maurice Evans (Richard II) rang up the curtain at 6:30 p.m. on "the first uncut Hamlet in New York" before a half-fashionable, half-earnest first-night audience who sat back grimly in their seats and waited to see if they could take it. When, after allowing a half-hour intermission for dinner...
Aftermath. As the storm raced inland, veering northwest toward Montreal, it flattened crops and orchards, wrenched away miles of wires, acres of signboards. It blew away the famed Jacobs Ladder trestle on Mt. Washington. Dumping trillions of tons of rain on New England, the hurricane swelled rivers already swollen by three days of ordinary rain. Highways and railroads were washed out. In the Connecticut Valley cities marshaled sandbag brigades. Hartford held its breath while the dike by the Colt Arms factory held through a flood stage 36.45 feet. In the Thames Valley, Norwich, Conn., isolated, was supplied with food...
...laboratory Dr. Perry induced unseasonable sex activity by shining ordinary 25-watt lamps on sparrows much less than a year old. The beaks of the males turned dark and their testes developed spermatozoa; the ovaries of the females were swollen, contained numerous eggs. The scientist evoked even more pronounced gland changes with ultraviolet light...
...Valencia, with a pre-War population of 350,000 now swollen by refugees to an estimated 1,000,000, children were forbidden the frequently bombed beaches. A public subscription was started to send children inland to safe colonies. Twenty-five ambulances sent from abroad reached Valencia. Belgian Non-intervention Observer Paul Heemans was wounded in an air attack...