Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifteen fellowships will help swell the enrollment from the present total of 50 to 80 next year...
...Harvard is fine, Dartmouth is swell, but the CRIMSON is great," the 1953 Dartmouth Winter Carnival Queen, told an admiring group of Crime photographers and reporters yesterday...
...vision. The author of Death of a Salesman has turned back to 1692 and the Salem witchcraft trials, clearly gripped by their hideous drama, clearly haunted by a conviction of their relevance today. He has watched, across the centuries, the hallucinations of children and the hearsay of grownups swell to an epidemic of accusations and arrests, confessions and hangings. In that unhappy time, any human doubt or protest was called the work of the devil, and the one way to avoid punishment lay in confession of guilt. In the foreground of this Bay Colony drama stands a young wife accused...
...lifelong Democrat who tried without success to make some sense out of the beautifully phrased, intellectual double-talk of the late lamented "talk sense to the American people" candidate, let me say that I am proud that my one vote helped to swell the total to 33 million for a first-rate President . . . Let the weeping and wailing of these socialistic eggheads be heard throughout the land and praise God that the 33 million who for once used the good old-fashioned horse sense He gave them now have the upper hand...
...pressure suit, says the Air Force, is nothing like those brief, becoming space suits worn in the comics. It will keep a man alive in a virtual vacuum for about ten minutes, but he breathes with difficulty. His hands, not fully pressurized, swell up with blue venous blood. His throat is another trouble spot: the medicos have not learned how to pressurize a throat without strangling its owner...