Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these underlie the corruption. Corruption is only the froth and foam on the crest of this massive ground swell of civic demoralization...
...more than a gesture of racial tolerance. The simple fact was that Levi Jackson, son of a Negro chef in a Yale fraternity house, was the Big Blue's best player and one of the best liked. The vote was unanimous. Said Levi: "It's swell...
...matter was dropped when Tallulah agreed "on condition that I can ask you the same questions." Visiting the White House on the heels of a group of reformed women prisoners, she made Franklin Roosevelt roar with laughter at her first words to him: "We'll get along swell. You like delinquent girls...
...unmanned, on a test dip of 4,250 feet (deeper than the man-aboard record of 3,028 feet set in 1934 by William Beebe, but far short of the 2½ miles Professor Piccard was hoping for). When the bathyscaphe surfaced, it was caught in a heavy ground swell and banged against the ship, and some of its equipment was wrecked. The left-handed professor* called off the expedition and sadly headed for home, but he thought he might try again next year...
Gifts of money totalling $400 will swell University and Radcliffe funds this week by a vote of the trustees of the A. C. Ratchesky Foundation. Radcliffe's 70th anniversary alumnae fund will be allotted $200; the University's Cancer and Infantile Paralysis Commissions were granted $100 apiece...