Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friendly relations between the faculty and students is something we have always wanted to see more carefully cherished at Harvard. At a great university, where many hundreds swell the ranks of the teaching staff and thousands more fill up the student roster, it is easy for the faculty man to hide behind a barrier of inaccessibility and let his ordinary pupils paddle their way without the cheery help of those at the top of the academic ladder...
Last week this definitely anti-Soviet and anti-Left ramrod now in the making was giving European Communists and Socialists sleepless nights and in Yugoslavia they turned loose every effort to help swell the crowds that huzzahed in Belgrade for President & Mrs. Benes & Democracy...
...young recruits for the German Army from families of German birth by paying the recruits' fare back to Hamburg. Nowhere is this more avidly practiced than in Germany's former colonies in Africa, for on their arrival in German barracks the recruits serve a double purpose. They swell the regimental ranks and become living symbols of the "lost territories" Germany so insistently demands...
...says that he lacks competitive "guts" and that the Bees' President Robert Quinn hired him mainly because his name should have box-office value. Of the three rookies, Owen attracted most attention by impudently remarking of his team's best pitcher, Dean: "I'll get along swell with Dizzy as long as he doesn't try to tell me how to catch...
...pavilion as his monument in Portland. Mainspring in the Meier & Frank business since Uncle Julius moved to the State House in 1930, Aaron Frank has watched his store's sales shrink from $18,510,061 in the fiscal year of 1928 to $11,276,077 in 1934 and swell again to $16,555,952 in 1936. When Aaron Frank announced last January that the operating assets of the store would be transferred to a new corporation, Meier & Frank Co., Inc.,*and that employes would be invited to buy stock therein, nobody doubted that he hoped to line...