Word: swollenness
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...picture of the growth of the sport at Harvard since the advent of the new Indoor Athletic Building has been markedly similar. Under the able coaching of Mr. Ulen the number of men competing for positions on the team has swollen to over a hundred, and it is significant to note that none of the great swimmers now on the team had proved themselves "great" before they came to Harvard. Student and graduate interest in the sport have also shown strength, culminating in the demonstration of approval that shook the rafters of the pool on the occasion of the recent...
Jimmie Cox, new athletic trainer, kneaded a baseball man's swollen ankle with educated fingers as he talked freely in his Kansas-Missourian drawl of his experiences as a trainer...
...separate building at Stillman Infirmary, 19 of the swollen-checked students are isolated from the rest of the patients, filling the entire top floor, and several beds on the next story, while two men have been removed to their homes. According to Professor Bock, none of the cases has developed complications...
...debt until it becomes due, a contention which would have a counterpart in the U. S. if WPA workers were paid in baby Government Bonds which were excluded from the national debt until they matured. SEC pointed out that by the middle of 1935 this odd accounting conception had swollen the total Reich debt by at least $2,000,000,000 above the admitted figure...
...Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind have all been of approximately 1,000-page length. Last week Meyer Levin's The Old Bunch (964 pages) gave wrist-weary readers another hefty handful. Aside from actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale of Jews in Chicago is not so much a chronicle as chronic narrative. Gentile readers (goyische Lezer to Author Levin) may find themselves oppressed...