Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every man in the School of Education will receive solicitation this week and next from a student special committee hoping to swell funds to finance the Graduate Student Center, now rising on Jarvis Field...
...because the seas were running high. We threw everything into the sea that we didn't need. We got all the rest of our stuff together and looked down at the ocean." Then, somewhere about 400 miles northeast of Bermuda, the B-29 smacked into the rolling Atlantic swell with a rending jolt. There was another jolt as the big bomber's high-finned tail snapped...
...output of goods and services-$246.7 billion in 1948-will swell to $416 billion (in today's purchasing values) and perhaps even to $550 billion...
...reaches its peak in Friday-night rallies. Nassau "P-rades" last almost two hours from the time they start on Prospect Avenue-Club row-to the time they swell into a crowd of (sincerely) cheering students on the steps under Blair Arch...
Lamar would not point to anyone in the line for special praise, but he did call end Stan Britton, elected on the bus ride up, a "swell captain...