Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing no one argues-Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind...
Rolling in the grey North Atlantic swell, His Majesty's sloop Harebell and the steamer Dunara Castle lay off the bleak precipitous island of St. Kilda last week. Plunging out through the surf. Royal Navy lifeboats carried to the Harebell 35 passengers, the entire population of St. Kilda, which the Harebell's precise commander reported thus: Men, able bodied...
Canvassers for the Miami Civic Tourist Club solicited Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone for a gift of $2,500 to swell a fund dedicated to community progress & betterment. News of the solicitation threw the club into a turmoil. President Clyde A. Epperson resigned; many board members followed his example. While this quarrel raged, a letter came from Capone's attorneys stating that no contribution would be forthcoming...
...Baltimore factory was only recently completed, Bethlehem Steel, which maintains there the world's largest tidewater steel plant, General Electric, and of aviation companies Berliner-Joyce, Curtiss-Caproni, Doyle Aero. Industries such as these, Baltimoreans hope, will transform their City of Monuments into a city of tycoons, will swell Baltimore's population from 850,000 to the more satisfactory 1,000,000. Such transformation and swelling seemed to move a step nearer last week when a new $5,000,000 Procter & Gamble factory was nearing completion. Gratefully, therefore, a group of Baltimoreans planned to give in the Chesapeake...
...prominent probably are the two Harvard winners in the Intercollegiates on Saturday, Record and Sutermeister. Then there is a long list of distance men, of whom the Crimson always has a decidedly above average crop, returning headed by Hallowell and having Cobb. Pearson, Fobes, Estes, Fox, and Barrie to swell the total. In the sprints there will be Hawes and Watkins while Kuehn also returns to take care of the high jump and shot...