Word: swollenness
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Students contracted the disease before the vacation, for the incubation period is 10 to 14 days. Preliminary symptoms are a sore throat and swollen glands. Fever and a rash appear later. Although German measles is a three-day disease, regular measles last at least one week...
House members are from 48 states and seven foreign countries, and although there is a considerable percentage of private school graduates, the majority comes from public high-schools, with a slightly swollen percentage from the midwest...
...long before Cronin's Scottish conscience began to ride him horribly. Against his swollen bankbook he could posit nothing, on the moral side, except occasional free work and the persuading of "two errant wives to return to their long-suffering husbands." Along with the plaguey conscience came an equally debilitating ulcer. Cronin decided it was time for him to clean house. He sold his rich practice, rented a lonely farmhouse in Scotland, and settled down to write a heartfelt novel about "the tragic record of a man's egotism and bitter pride...
...universal military training is being debated in Congress, a British Government White Paper declared yesterday that an additional 50,000 Britons will be called upon to enroll in the already swollen ranks of the British armed forces during the next year...
After the war the swollen size of the University placed an even greater bur- den on the Commuters Center. At this time, Duhig noted, "a sharp decline in membership during the junior and senior years... The crowded and inadequate facilities of the present rooms force many upperclassmen to make other arrangements...