Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash. When this gold is spent-as gold certificates deposited to the Government's account in Federal Reserve Banks-it will add an equivalent amount to the nation's credit base. The unused part of that credit base (excess reserves) will then swell from $2,400,000,000, to which it was enlarged by lowering reserve requirements, to a record...
...laboratory for twelve days last winter. Outside it was sleety & cold; in the room the temperature was 90° during the day, 88° at night. Dr. Bazett's first symptoms were typical of spring fever-laziness, sleepiness, a logy feeling. Then his ankles and feet began to swell. At the end of the first week he was drowsy, uncomfortable, mentally confused. But at the end of ten days he felt comfortable again, because his blood-making system had gone into action and made more than two extra pints of blood to cool his internal workings. His swollen ankles...
TIME April 4: "Itsy-bitchy angel face." Swell. Grand. Great...
Particularly worthy of attention as an excellent example of dramatic a capella composition is Milhand's Psaume. This begins with a low bass note that is almost like a growl in its quiet intensity. There follows a rapid swell as the baritones rush upward, and the tenors break in with a quick, nervous melody. Soon all the parts join in to carry on the thread of the words until the voices suddenly blend in a soft chord on the word "Jerusalem...
...then his wife, asking that there be "no sadness, no mourning and no ceremony" after his death. Now the wife of Director Anatole Litvak, Cinemactress Hopkins last week gathered with other Parker friends in a Hollywood funeral parlor, "just to sit around," she said, "and talk about what a swell...