Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because I object to wasting money in feeding jackals and turkey buzzards of Prohibition, I refuse to indorse, agree with or vote for any appropriations designed to continue this futile farce of enforcing a non-enforceable law and taxing my fellow citizens to swell the volume of lawlessness, depravity, corruption and dishonesty now debauching the American Republic...
...Astoria, L. I., two Chinamen-Wei Yoh Wu and Pin Ling Shen-were discovered by the press. They had been studying in the U. S. for several years and were about ready to go back to China to set on foot there a radio industry which might quickly swell to the enormous proportions achieved in occidental countries...
...railroad station to meet Mrs. Smith and some friends coming from New York. I was 20 minutes early, so a group of urchins with a harmonica attracted me. Espying a red-headed lad among them, I said: 'How about a Charleston, sonny?' The harmonica began to swell; the lads began to dance and wiggle. I tilted my derby, clapped my hands, shouted 'Hey! Hey!' while my foot beat time upon the sidewalks of Atlantic City. My wife and friends arrived, watched, were amused. When the lads were exhausted I threw them dimes and quarters, before leaving...
...reported at yesterday's meeting. Among these was Willard Howard '27, a letter man two years ago who did not play last year because of an injury sustained in baseball. The members of last year's undefeated Freshman sextet and several stars who were ineligible last season swell the total of first-class material from which Coach Bigelow will mould the team to face a hard schedule...
...dormitories across the river, the Business School has installed a branch library in the unused dining room of Morris Hall. About 500 of the most commonly-used books in the Business School courses have been placed on the shelves, and new additions are constantly being made, which will shortly swell the number of volumes to more than...