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Word: swelled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many times heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz Personified | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Music arose with its vuluptuous swell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/18/1937 | See Source »

...more than 50 new judges to duplicate those who are now 70 and have been ten years on the bench. Not stated by the President to the press, and in the draft bill masterfully underemphasized, was the specific, final, crucial point of the entire performance: a proposal to swell the Supreme Court-should septuagenarians decline to retire-from nine to 15 members, an increase of two Justices larger than the confirmed anti-New Deal element of the present Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: De Senectute | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...enlightened, more realistic. Close to the public, the retailers were long aware of the socio-economic tremors which it required a Roosevelt landslide to jar into the consciousness of manufacturers. Months before the subject reached the floor of Congress, organized retailing was thumping for Social Security. Pensions and benefits swell the public's purchasing power, hence are fine for merchants-and they happened to be popular with the electorate. Popular with part of the electorate are consumer co-operatives but there the retailers draw the line. The idea of private property without profit has given them the jitters, particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Retailers | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...that one doesn't have to be bull-dozed by one's conscience into studying one single smitch during Reading Period. There are Swell Ways to get around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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