Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should talk to everybody she could. It was a tough assignment for a woman her age. . . . She has had to ride bad trains, stand in line for food, spend many hours at night talking to wives of soldiers and mothers who were working in war factories. . . . She did a swell...
...Ground Swell. In Miami, Ada Dunaway sued for divorce, said she had to live on a boat for four years, was sick of being seasick...
...hundred and twenty-five pounds of good humour, five feet five and eyes of hazel, "Miss Lupe" thinks Midshipmen are "swell says," and she's sure we'll make the world's best officers. Being very coy about her social life, all Lupy would say is "Yes, I have dated ensigns," and "No, I've never been out with a Midshipman...
...give it tunes like I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen or This Is the Army, Mr. Jones. But it has the CWACS (Canadian Women's Army Corps) to lend it lure. And it has a twofold function: besides playing Canada's cities to swell the Troops Welfare Fund, it will tour Canada's army camps (in shortened form), later troupe for the boys overseas...
...price of sugar would rise 1½? a pound, the price of bread might go up ? a loaf. . . . The price of corn could rise almost 10% which . . . would certainly call forth a demand for higher prices for hogs and livestock, poultry, eggs, milk. . . . These price increases . . . might swell the cost of living more than...