Word: swellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under the ground as a hog smells out truffles. The prospector carries it over the hills, poking into crevices. In his earphones he hears a few clicks stirred up by cosmic rays and normal earth radioactivity. If the clicks come faster, his heart generally beats faster too. If they swell to a roar, he may be near a uranium bonanza...
...points a meet" distance ace Vogel will be gunning for marathon laurels on the earlier date, which probably explains the requested switch. Under the revised schedule, Tufts will swell the April 26 total to five teams--Tufts, Boston College, Holy Cross, Northeastern and Harvard. This meet will be held in the Stadium. The Crimson, Brown, and Rhode Island will meet here on April...
...swan and thought so herself. Her fair hair, she conveyed to you, was her glory. She was curving and sedate. With the sleepy smile of one lying on a feather bed in Paradise, with tiny grey eyes behind the pince-nez which sat on her nose, with the swell of long low breasts balanced by the swell of her dawdling rump, she moved swanlike to her desk. But not like a swan in the water; like a swan on land. She waddled. Her feet were planted obliquely. One would have said that they were webbed...
...lyricism. Subtitled "a novel of faith in the earth," it is also a novel of bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The theme is large, simple and an incitement to soil conservation. At times the treatment has an earthy swell and eloquence. But Author Feikema works his lesson so hard that before readers reach the end of the book, they will be worn...
...distraught baritones may be seen sprinting up to Sever Hall, for Associate Professor G. Wallace Woodworth starts his Glee Club rehearsals on time. With a gigantic sweep of his muscular arms, he sets two hundred pairs of vocal cords vibrating in unison. Late comers tiptoe to their positions to swell the sound that spreads beyond the Yard dormitories. For an hour, or three if necessary, Woody conducts furiously, occasionally shouting "that's it" into the music, or slapping the table with an emphatic "no." Then the singers stop on a temporal dime, and without perceptible damage to the tempo...