Word: swollenness
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Swaying foolishly in a strong southeast wind, 16 swollen gas bags floated up from Basle, Switzerland, one day last week. It was the 21st James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Favorite teams were led by Belgium's Ernest de Muyter, four-time winner of Bennett races, and Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber aeronautical engineers, also a fourtime winner. But last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After...
...time to say good-by came. I said 'Well, goodby, Bert. I'll see you again sometime.' He said 'Goodby, May.' I wanted to shake his hand in farewell but he had already shaken hands with thousands and his hand was swollen and paining him. We parted without a handshake...
...rose 17%. Brokerage houses with staffs geared to drowsy 700,000-share days joyously recalled old employes to help handle the fat business of 5,500,000 shares daily. Wall Street's lights for the first time in many a month burned far into the night. Reflecting the swollen volume, a boomlet developed in Exchange seats. A Big Board seat sold for $120.000 against a low last May of $62,000. Curb memberships jumped from $16,500 to $28.500. "How late is the tape?" rang familiarly around board rooms. On the two biggest days the U. S. Treasury gained...
...cobras were spitting & biting, tying each other into angry knots. Dr. Ditmars watched impassively. "Let them fight it out," said he. "That's the only way they'll get used to each other." At length Beelzebub crawled off into a corner of the cage, his head bloody & swollen. Dr. Ditmars fed him a six-foot gopher snake, turned a hose on his conqueror...
...eighth round against Sharkey, he began to increase his pace as his admirers expected. Blocking punches with his gloves and el bows, he drove Sharkey around the ring crowded him into the corners, smashed short punches to the side of his jaw. Shar key's left eye became swollen, discolored. Schmeling had a cut lip. In the ninth round then the tenth and the eleventh, it looked as though Sharkey were tiring, as though Schmeling had planned his fight well and might even be able to win as he pleased in the last rounds. Instead, Schmeling came...