Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beta Kappa & a Nobelman. A proud and portly man with a flair for oratory and a willingness to travel 25,000 miles a year to plead Howard's cause, Johnson has seen his budget swell from less than $956,000 to $5,658,500. His enrollment has climbed from 2,155 to 4,800; his faculty has nearly tripled to 442. He built a new library and a power plant, buildings for the School of Engineering and Architecture, the College of Dentistry and the College of Pharmacy. Five women's dormitories have gone up, as well...
With its new line, U.S. Time, which grossed about $60 million for the year ended April 30, 1955, will swell production to well over 4,000,000 wrist watches this year, including Timex and Ingersoll brands, Davy Crockett and Mickey Mouse watches, all Sears, Roebuck's Tower brand and all Boy Scout watches. U.S. Time watches sell for $22.95 or under because, says Lehmkuhl, "since there are more Chevvies and Fords on the road than Cadillacs and Lincolns, the well-made, low-priced watch will be dominating the market for some years...
...Soviet flags flew everywhere. Street names with an "imperial'' flavor were changed, such as Queensway, which became Road of the People. Forty thousand schoolchildren rehearsed for days their roles as spontaneous greeters. Free special trains from the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh poured peasants in to swell the city crowd; other thousands arrived by foot, by bullock cart or by camel...
...covering the Civil War, took time out to paint Zouaves pitching quoits in camp. Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted scullers and wrestlers; George Bellows not only haunted the fight ring painting boxing classics (Dempsey and Firpo), but also painted tennis at Newport and polo at Lakewood. In Ground Swell, Edward Hopper caught every yachtsman's thrill at passing the last buoy and heading seaward in a light breeze...
...that of hogs, it is more profitable to turn the corn into pork; that was the case through most of 1954, with the result that the 1954 fall pig crop was 16% bigger than in 1953, and the 1955 spring pig crop was 9% bigger than in 1954. To swell the hog population still further, free corn prices on the market have been considerably lower than the Government support price. A farmer eligible for corn support could thus sell his own crop to the Government at $1.58 a bu., buy corn on the market that was ineligible for support...