Word: bloatedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news for dormitory residents does not end here. Despite recent dips in commodity and retail prices, University financial experts believe that there will be a substantial rise in the general price level by next year, a rise that will bloat maintenance costs and in other ways increase the expense of running the Houses and dormitories. With the College returning to a two-term schedule and summertime rents gone, the men who plan the College's financial future can see no alternative to raising room rents...
Despite its homely familiarity, when money goes abroad it cloaks itself in mystery. The present generation has seen this mystery in its darkest phase. It has seen the franc bloat and the mark blow up. It has seen Montagu Norman claw his way up from devaluation to set the pound on gold at the sacred rate of $4.86½. It has seen Hjalmar Schacht counter with moneys designed to fit every purse and purpose. It has listened to the jargon of scores of theories. And it has rightly suspected that all this confusion had much to do with unemployment...
...poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great and nearly all the minor ancients are fully, and in a few cases fulsomely, represented; contemporary poets receive mostly only token representation. People who tend to bloat when reading classic pieces can get relief, in The Viking Book, from its citation of one of the best literary carminatives ever written (taken from Boswell's Life of Johnson...