Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received from its Post Office Committee a bill raising rates on domestic air mail from 5? to 6?, on special delivery from 13? to 15?, and on all newspapers & magazines, to swell receipts by $100 million annually...
...moment, the world can use loans and relief money from the U.S. to help pay for American exports which cannot be swapped for imports. All told, the loans and relief will swell the $7.6 billion from U.S. imports to nearly $14 billion. Thus, at the present rate, the net export-import deficit of foreign nations which will have to be made up from hoarded savings will be between $4 and $5 billion. That is nearly one-quarter of the $20 billion in gold and U.S. dollars held in the world outside...
Posterity Is Here. Whether the U.S. intended it or not, it now has the world's largest library. And so long as it receives by law two copies of every book copyrighted in the U.S., it will continue to swell. The library began (in 1789) with a Congressman's modest proposal that a committee draw up and price a "catalogue of books" for his colleagues' handy reference. A little more than a century later only the Librarian himself knew how to find the one million ill-catalogued books, and accounts were short $30,000 because a stack...
...peevish one who constantly takes umbrage - gets too much blood in his stomach walls; if he stays angry too long, ulcers may result. The fury or sulking fits aroused by threats to a man's life or his love, said Dr. Wolff, sometimes affects his nose: it may swell up and hurt. A "mad" nose, caught with its resistance down, is easy prey to colds and other infections...
Just a line, and this is a line, to thank you . . . for the text you contrived. ... I think it came out swell. It may interest you to know that a man eight feet tall, who just arrived with the circus, spoke with enthusiasm about your piece. This is high praise indeed...