Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot. If his cabin should lose its pressurizing, he would die just as quickly (about 15 seconds) as if he were in the vacuum of space. At a slightly higher altitude (63,000 ft.), his warm blood would boil, making his flesh swell up with bubbles like cookies baking in an oven...
...productions of Greek drama-the management of the chorus-was this time the special glory. There were "a few too-mannered touches; but its grave movement, its now murmurous, now resonant chanting, its sudden, swift, intensely dramatic confrontation of the audience, gave it a kind of orchestral grandeur and swell...
Fall reading period will swell to normal size in 1953-54, according to the long-range schedule released yesterday by Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28. This change, plus six fewer days of classes than this year, will make 1953-54 one of the most ideal calendar years in recent times...
Returning Korea servicemen will swell the number of veterans in the University to more than a thousand next year for the first time since 1949, the Committee on Veteran Affairs reported yesterday...
...know," I asked, "that you are the second-leading ground gainer in the country." Clasby smiled again. "Really? That's swell." I don't know what reaction I had expected, but I suppose that I had figured to throw the tailback for a little loss at least. "You're only 38 yards behind the follow that's leading, somebody from Detroit. Everything depends on how you do Saturday" I said I detected Clasby's eyes harrow. Any reference to Saturday, by someone not a member of the team, is greeted by silence these days. Strange things are going...