Word: swells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriously," he added later, "this coaching staff at Harvard is swell; in fact, there is none better...
...Women's teams outdraw men's teams as box-office attractions, not only in Hollywood but all over the country. Even Manhattan's famed Madison Square Garden succumbed to women's softball this summer to swell their coffers, put on a semiweekly program of double headers featuring their own Roverettes and visiting teams...
...years when the Davis Cup is held by the U. S., the coffers of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association swell some $50,000 from gate receipts of the Interzone Final and Challenge Round, always played in the country defending the Cup. This year the tennis association got out an extra coffer when Helen Wills Moody decided to try for a comeback in international tennis. A meeting between Helen Moody and Helen Jacobs in the U. S. championship would add at least $25,000 to the till. Thus the U. S. L. T. A. was very glad...
...this week's [July 25] swell TIME write-up of the Hughes flight was a discussion of the rubber life raft with bottled carbon dioxide for quick inflation. Carbon dioxide happens to be a bad actor as soon as it smells rubber. . . . Its rate of diffusion through rubber is about 15 times that of air. A rubber life raft inflated with carbon dioxide in mid-ocean might, for this reason, be a little embarrassing, perhaps even rather trying after a certain lapse of time...
...installed a six-foot parabolic reflector to project any unconscious whispering toward the "receiver." The receiver had a similar reflector to focus any such sounds on his ears. When the sender was instructed to imagine that he was shouting the symbol, there were enough sound cues to swell the receiver's average of correct guesses far above the chance expectation. But when the sender was not instructed to indulge in "mental shouting," the percentage of correct guesses dropped to the chance level. Dr. Kennedy felt that these results proved his point with crushing finality...