Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davidson, bush-bearded sculptor of celebrities, voiced high hopes for the San Francisco conference, where he will record the world's peacemakers in clay: "We're going through the labor pains of a new civilization, and the child's going to be swell...
...making us laugh, needling us on, and managing to give as inspirational talk or two. His "50-50," poetry recitals, and "captains of industry" are going to give him a place in every Junior's vocabulary for some time to come. "So long and smooth sailing to a mighty swell fellow," from your admiring underlings, the Junior Class...
...switchover will swell each week. War contracts must be completed first, but plants may reconvert before the end of the war with Germany. For roofless Britons, patiently trudging to work in their shiny trousers and shabby dresses, home-front production will give priorities to clothing, building material, household equipment. Cars, tires, refrigerators, electrical gear, machinery will get preference for the vital export markets...
Roughly 640 returning civilian undergraduates, 450 V-12 and NROTC trainees, and a sprinkling of transfers will swell the undergraduate enrollment in the College of Arts and Sciences to over 1200. This figure is about the same as totals for the recent winter term, which ends today...
...Have and Have Not), arrived in Manhattan for a well-timed "rest," topped the tabloids with a well pressagented romance. Her leading man, Cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, happened to be staying at the Hotel Gotham, where she put up. To swarming newsmen, she confided: "Bogey is a real swell guy. We have a lot of fun together. . . ." Bogart, currently separated from his wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, got in character to pronounce his opinion of Lauren: "Baby's . . . a real Joe." Bogey and Baby have just completed their second picture, The Big Sleep...