Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actor-musician has had much contact with the local debutantes lately, as he has been presented over the radio every afternoon since his arrival, giving interviews to the Boston society girls. "They even turned out at the station to meet me," said he, "they're a swell bunch...
...Stinger." "It's the best drink in the world when you want to go out on a real binge. I don't think things are much different now, than before repeal, except that the liquor is better and stronger. Why, the Copley bar was just like a swell place I know of in New York...
...suds, explained the Belgian scientist, are in disequilibrium, some whipped by a cosmic repulsive force (expressed by the constant lambda), some clutched at by the attractive force which earthlings know as gravity. While some bubbles swell and others contract, still others, unstably balanced between the two forces, are in a state of stagnation. Within some regions where expansion is the rule, there are collapsing systems flying headlong away from one another. Also, in slowly collapsing regions are to be found a number of rapidly collapsing systems. Such a system is the Milky Way, the galaxy to which Earth belongs...
Squash courts in Leverett House caused a great deal of unexpected trouble when it was found that the wood backing the rear walls of two of the courts is improperly cured, and has caused the timbers to swell and buckle. The back frame is made of square timbers of about three inches in thickness, set up vertically and horizontally about nine inches apart. On swelling, the horizontal tim- bers forced the vertical ones out, caused the whole wall to buckle, and become unfit for play, and necessitated a complete rebuilding of the wall by the University Maintenance Department. Investigation reveals...
Further faults in the Biological building were revealed when it was found that one of the floors in a room on the ground level had to be relaid three times before it was satisfactory. Each time more water seeped in causing the parquetry to swell and buckle necessitating new flooring. It is believed that the University had to sustain the expense of this unexpected repairing...