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Word: swells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highflying, rollicking swell; Here's to our Tonie! Don't she look well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...spite of the tremendous ground swell of public opinion which is evidently behind the idea of an effective Pay-as-you-earn plan, the Gallup Poll reporting from 81 to 87 per cent in the various categories polled in favor of it, Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee has seen fit to maneuver the whole question back into his committee with the intention of killing it or at least holding it up for the rest of this year. He is "gloriously satisfied." But those Americans who are faced with the ever-recurring problem of paying last year...

Author: By T. P. S. and O. G. S., S | Title: BRASS TACKS | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...space K K K space ... This week brought to the Company a new name, new courses to study, and "new" rooms in which to live ... Speaking for all members of Company DOG, we think everything is just swell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Beachcombers of Company D | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...article [on "dental cripples"] in TIME [Feb. 22] was a swell job. It "digested" that paper of mine in great shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Vociferous gripers, U.S. service men gripe not about the Red Cross. The word they have for it: swell. Summed up one private in England last week: "It's wonderful just to have an American girl to talk to." And U.S. service men know that the Red Badge of Courage may sometimes take the shape of a cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Badge of Courage | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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