Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profits in prospect for industrial corporations generally over the next few years are likely to make 1929 and 1937 look small by comparison." While the big days of 1929 are being made to look small by today's high-profit businessmen, while rising prices increase profit margins and the swollen net profits of wartime are surpassed in the rush to "get yours," who will be thinking of that day several years from now when the seemingly inexhaustible consumer demand created by wartime shortages has dried up? When, in a few years, the reservoir of investment opportunity has been fully exploited...
First speaker of the evening, Dean Hanford outlined expansion of the University since the first freshman class met behind a fence erected against stray cattle and wolves. The swollen 5,000 man enrollment this year is a far cry, he pointed out, from those beginnings...
...apartment next the jail, begging for safe conduct through the erratic cross fire. An ambulance seeking to rescue the wounded inside the jail hastily retired before sniper bullets from the trees. For six hours the night echoed with the unequal exchanges between 73 deputies and their besiegers, now swollen to hundreds of shouting, wild-firing volunteers. Once, the barricaded deputies called out a threat to kill three G.I. hostages, jailed during the day, unless the assault ceased...
Behind the rail guarding the summit of Yosemite's misty, snow-swollen Vernal Falls, 21-year-old Orville Loos, just out of the Navy and still in uniform, gaped -with the other tourists, listened to the mighty cataract pounding fearsomely on the jagged boulders 320 feet below. It would be something to remember when he went home to Dayton, Ohio, and the new electrical-appliance shop his parents had bought...
...second stage follows two to six weeks later. Typical symptoms: swollen joints, fever, rheumatic nodules at the elbow, knee and other joints. "When it is typical, the disease is easy to diagnose," says Dr. Schwentker, "but the big majority of cases are not typical. The patient may suffer from vague, fleeting pains in the joints and have a low fever." Mistakes in diagnosis are again common until the heart's valves and blood vessels become inflamed...