Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again and again if pepped up with a shot of light-hearted acting and novel lines. It is the perfect comedy for today; you can look at a uniform and still laugh, you can neglect the war and November hours, you can take your best girl and have one swell evening...
Wave after wave, altogether some 200 planes, roared across the famed port. A communique admitted that near panic in a public shelter helped swell casualties to 354 killed, 3000 injured. To Genoa, pockmarked with ruins, rushed little King Vittorio Emanuele III, 72, and large Queen Elena, to bolster Italian morale...
...each copy. Already a load of extra chairs have been dumped into the reading room and they are filled till ten o'clock every night. These facts seem to be clear enough indication that rush is on. Not only will 1200 odd History, Government, and Economics readers continue to swell the crowd flocking through the white pillars, but with the Union Library locked up they will be joined by hundreds of other Freshmen. The House libraries, primarly intended for tutorial and general reading, are not well enough stocked to dram off any appreciable amount of former Union and Boylston traffic...
Both Harlow and Blaik named Russ Stannard as one of the stars of the game. Still despondent over the unexpected loss of blocking back Swede Anderson, Harlow also singled out Anderson's substitutes George Waters and Hank Goethals, who, he said, "played swell games...
...making TIME'S covers bigger. Actually, I was just kidding, but maybe my sense of humor didn't show itself. I have really started on the job of papering my wall with TIME'S men-of-the-week, and it is turning out to be a swell job. To show you how it looks, I am sending you a picture with my best regards...