Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mahan's Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 appeared in 1890, British imperialists rated it an indispensable aid in wangling money from Parliament. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who was just beginning to swell, telegraphed to Journalist Poultney Bigelow: "I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book. ... It is on board all my ships...
...estimated that each visitor would spend $56 apiece, a reasonable estimate since Manhattan's nightlife and Manhattan's shops provide more chances to spend money than Chicago's. All told, he foresees a billion dollars worth of business for New York City, which is supposed to swell to $10,000,000,000 before it has spent its force. The fair estimates that the billion will be spent as follows...
...ensemble work that made it famous as a dance outfit and for excellent commercial. Catch Louis Armstrong's duet with PeeWee Hunt for the difference between someone that phrases and one that just sings . . . Also heard the Victor Herbert album, and while it isn't swing, it is swell melodic stuff--recorded perfectly and done in admirable taste--and is a relief from tunes like "Three Little Fishies"--for which Harvard may or may not be responsible, but which is guaranteed to drive almost any one crazy . . . For a change, and due to Cozy Cole's drumming, Lionel Hampden...
...this phantasmagoria, from beneath this flood of (to most of the audience) incomprehensible Greck came a show, a swell show, a hit! There was none of the respectful boredom with which the audience greets far too many Classical Club productions. Instead the stiff-shirted, bespectacled audience let down their back hair and roared with laughter, applauded like...
...teaching of art history is discontinuous, ignoring the ground swell but making much of the wave-crests--schools, movements, isms, styles, which succeed one another much like the ducks in a shooting-gallery. To evolve a philosophy of art history which would give meaning to change and value to accomplishment, often requires that we study phenomena which are not, in the orthodox, artistic at all. How much simpler to build stone walls that make teaching easier though they make learning more difficult. Thus one avoids the charge of being an academic jack-of-all-trades, and remains the specialist behaving...