Word: swollenness
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...Disaster struck the soo-ft. Mississippi towboat Natchez, namesake of the steamboat which raced the Robert E. Lee. The swollen river's current smashed the vessel into a bridge pier near Greenville, Miss. She rolled over and sank in 30 seconds. Thirteen of her crew were saved; another 13 drowned...
Said a white-haired usherette at the Nice opera house, preparing for next week's opera season, "It will be good to get back to oldtime tranquillity. My head is like a swollen squash...
Morrison, director of English, explains that the supply of competent teachers has not kept abreast of swollen high school enrollments. Blaming poor pay, long hours, and overwork, he thinks that if English teachers could put the debating team, school paper, and dramatic club under someone else's guiding hand, they would have time for more practical instruction...
...swollen agencies in Washington live in fear of their daily bread and butter," said Professor Schumpeter, in a stab at Bureaucracy. He labelled the money used to pay bureaucrats "negligible" compared with the damage they caused...
...critic of the President's Commission (see above), Taylor never complains about swollen enrollments. He wants as many students as he can get: "If they want to come, tell them to get in touch with us- telephone, write, or send a telegram." For adult students he can't accommodate, he has set up four "neighborhood colleges" in Louisville public libraries. He has plans for putting college courses on records to be broadcast, has visions of 30,000 students taking a single course all at one time. "Colleges which persist in lecturing to small groups," says...