Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent from Mount Holyoke College, where 42 delegates have been working on the agenda. The Wellesley group in next in size, with 36 women as delegates and six representing the Wellesley "News". Smith follows with 30. A large influx of unofficial observers and interested faculty members is expected to swell the numbers of the meeting considerably above the limits of the Assembly proper, which consists of some 300 members. It is expected that the seating capacity of Alumnae Hall, Pembroke's large new auditorium, will be taxed to the utmost in order to accommodate the entire assemblage. Students will descend...
...reorganization. Agricultural colleges are the logical nucleus for the development of such a movement. Certainly the examples of cultural state colleges in the west should suffice to convince them that they can perform no comparable service by the adoption of an A.B. degree. Such a course would tend to swell the growing number of the educated unemployed who have long since discovered that a sheepskin may cover a shorn lamb...
Over the horizon from California in the long swell of the Pacific rocked the clock-faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington...
California, land of promise in times of prosperity and catch-basin of the penniless in this time of depression, has adopted heroic measures in regard to its "non-resident unemployment situation." Twelve hundred recruits swell the ranks of the idle each day in California. Not all can be assisted by the state, and the problem is to find a sensible basis of classification. Accordingly, the state is to establish rock-piles along the eastern frontier, where the jobless can go to work splitting stones; and labor-camps in the interior, where the unemployed can earn food and shelter by cutting...
Picture "John Bull." Now make him taller-6 ft. 6 in. tall. Swell his great girth, expand his barrel chest. Make him the biggest, handsomest, beefiest John Bull in England. Dress him in a well-cut morning coat, impeccable striped trousers and white spats. Give him a handsome cane. Crown him with a high silk hat. Make him a Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Make him the colossal figure who merged under the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. the largest group of shipping companies ever created (TIME, Feb. 23). Do all this and you have Baron...