Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Education Is Swell...
...Hayden Channing, the hardworking captain of the harriers ran a perfectly swell race when he came in third behind the fast stepping Vilbur Woodland of Yale and one of his teammates. Henry Marcy was right behind him also, but these two runners are about the only ones who can be counted on to do anything very spectacular...
...Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made her nose look smaller, penciled in wide-curved eyebrows, applied long artificial eyelashes. Stepping back from his work with satisfaction, "Eddie" Senz tweaked the nurse's nose and chuckled: "Phillips, you're looking swell!" Most of the beautifying tricks were temporary, could be made permanent with more careful work...
...nose while he talked about "Red, Hot, and Blue" which he thinks will run for some time on Broadway. "I like to play with Ethel Merman, who wouldn't? And say, if you come to see the show Friday or Saturday, you'll hear her sing one swell song. It's called "In the Depths on the Ninetieth Floor" and is the torch song to replace "Bad Influence...
...Fall list of the University Press comes the realization that this potentially powerful institution has once more lapsed into the narrow confines of pedantry and musty research. Theses on such subjects as "French Revolutionary Legislation on Illcgitimacy, 1789-1804" or "Cutover Old Field Pine Lands in Central New England" swell the stacks hidden in the gloomy recesses of Widener, and furnish excellent material for research along such lines, if any is contemplated. They do not, however, lend either to the University Press, or to the College, that general interest and recognition which one would expect...