Word: swollenness
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...flood was that the Eastern winter had not been cold enough. Instead of remaining on the ground as snow and draining gradually, the winter precipitation had fallen as cold rain, millions of tons of it, to make a wet and gloomy hell of high water as the swollen torrent swept 900 mi. south-west through ten sodden States. Pennsylvania got off comparatively easy this year. The citizens of Johnstown, which can never forget 1889, got worried when the Conemaugh went to five feet above normal after a 72-hr, rain, but few Johnstownians took the precaution of moving to higher...
...turbulent waters engulf city after city along the swollen Ohio River Valley in the worst flood in our history, the Cambridge Chapter of the American Red Cross last night made a special appeal for voluntary contributions from students...
Having delivered themselves of this formula, Messrs. Eccles & Morgenthau then explained : the Treasury was going to keep additional gold, mined in the U. S. or imported from abroad, from getting into the U. S. banking system, where it swells the already swollen credit base. By New Deal law all imported gold and all newly-mined gold has to be sold to the Government, the Treasury paying for the metal with checks drawn on its accounts in the Federal Reserve Banks. Hitherto the Treasury has then replenished its checking accounts by depositing in the Reserve Banks gold certificates against the gold...
When Franklin Roosevelt's throat grew swollen and raw and his temperature rose to a portentous degree. Dr. Tobey gave him hypodermic injections of Prontosil, made him swallow tablets of a modification named Prontylin. Under its influence, young Roosevelt rallied at once, thus providing an auspicious introduction for a product about which U. S. doctors and laymen have known little...
...Crescendo of Poissonality. He has the most finished technique. You would hardly know it was a technique, but for the occasional revealing split second. Opinions may differ as to the secondary qualities required in a President of the United States, but undoubtedly the first is Poissonality. Such Poissonality, swollen by its own success, has its dangers. Let us hope Roosevelt will not fall for it himself...