Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite much of this sort of discipline, embarkation was a staggering problem. Boats rowed into the darkness and were never seen again. In the heavy ground swell, towropes parted and snapped like whips. Propellers came to a dead stop, fouled by wire, wreckage and "human obstruction" (corpses...
...daffodils. This week, New York City will get its first "ozoner": a 600-car, $300,000 affair on Staten Island. Six were open in Dayton, Ohio alone, and six would be running in St. Louis by summer. According to Boxoffice, more than 200 new drive-ins this year would swell the U.S. total-a mere 100-odd when war ended-to 546 built & building...
Meanwhile, students who are not breaking even must wire home for more money, seek out University or other loans, request College grants-in-aid, or swell their working hours...
...first-and best-portrait in the book is of the author's Uncle Christopher, a "swell" of the Victorian era, whose heroic snobbery found its reward-and its doom-in the friendship of that nearly perpetual Prince of Wales who eventually became Edward VII. The story of Sir Christopher Sykes resembles a tale by Max Beerbohm, with this difference: the writer's grave pleasure in his subject never gets out of hand into fantasy...
...General Education program will get another boost in size next year, as two new courses in the Humanities, four in the Social Sciences, and one in the Natural Sciences will swell the total offerings of the program to 24. President Conant's course on the growth of the experimental sciences, formerly a middle course group open only to Juniors and Seniors, has been shifted to the first group and will be open to Freshmen as a full-year course...