Word: swells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latch on to this long-hair schmaltz myself, and I think Paul Mandel did a swell job of showing up the Advocate for using the word Zeitgeist in an article. It's time these literary characters found out that not everybody knows Latin...
...second half of the season, the orchestra has added two more to swell its record membership to 82. Joseph Cacciati '54 played bass violin for two years with the National Symphony of Washington under Hans Kindler. Another pupil of Richard Burgin, Barbara Sorenson '52 enlarges the violin section...
With such encouragement, the board thought that foreign investment by private enterprise should at least double the present $1 billion-a-year rate. In addition, the board estimated, "two billion dollars energetically and strategically invested over the next few years could swell the outflow of vital materials from the underdeveloped regions by $1 billion a year. This increased production can best be carried out under private auspices...
Contributions from 233 members of last year's graduating class helped swell the Harvard Fund's 1950 receipts to a near-record $401,169, David McCord '21, executive secretary of the Fund Council, announced yesterday. The Class of '50 contributed a total...
...snapping Lieut. Colonel Thayer's girdle. It reassures our confidence in leadership to see the Air Force so effectively buttress itself. Social champagne commissionings in the Pentagon boost the morale of the guys in Korea, especially anybody with less rank than lieutenant colonel . . . Best of all, this is swell strategy: when that company of fighting Chinese Communist females find out, they'll vamoose, fearing a barrage of empty champagne bottles from the "colonel's" plane...