Word: swollenness
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Torrents poured in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Down went the flood waters of Cherry Creek to Denver. Down went swollen Fountain Creek at Colorado Springs, rolling eight feet deep in the residential section, drowning a man and woman on the roof of their sedan. The floods spread to Colorado's Sugar Bowl, rushed into Nebraska by way of the South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished...
...bent on starting a move to have Governor Merriam recalled as soon as the six months' legal period of grace had elapsed following his inauguration. But the biggest headache of all for Governor Merriam was the problem of raising funds to meet the $347,000,000 California budget, swollen by mounting relief costs...
...Swollen Brains & Epilepsy. The behavior of a high-frequency electric current shot through the head of an epileptic differs from the same current shot through a normal head. The difference is due to the swelling of the epileptic's brain, decided Drs. Ernst Spiegel & Mono, Spiegel-Adolf (wife) of Philadelphia. They found that they could shrink such brains and decrease convulsions by feeding epileptics meats and other acid-producing foods. Alkali producing foods, they found, excite epileptics, increase their tendency to fits...
...medium-sized dog's leg, and his belly was as large as that of a 130-pound woman's. Suffering from rickets and anemia, his legs were unable to carry him for more than a dozen steps at a time; suffering from malnutrition, his belly was swollen several times its normal size. His face was bony and white. He was starving to death...
...Angeles, one Robert Coy of Peoria, Ill., was hospitalized with swollen ankles after playing 459 holes in 39 hours over the 6,500-yd. golf course at Potrero (a record...