Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lily Dale Assembly, in New York, is the "Largest Spiritualist Camp in the World." There each summer spiritualism bursts into full bloom. Last week its 61st annual session drew believers and skeptics alike for contact with the spirit world. In parlor seances in many a medium's cottage along Lily Dale's wooded roads, the ether was crowded with voices. Reported Editor Juliette Ewing Pressing of The Psychic Observer: "The heavenly hosts are pleading with us these days to keep our balance and poise." Plainest talk came from the late Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator and Secretary...
Applauding the strategy of introducing a tough tax bill now (when the bloom on National Defense enthusiasm gives it a chance of passing), the bill's many non-enthusiasts nevertheless thought the Treasury should have waited longer, studied more...
...Bloom forever, O Republic...
Only a fortnight ago, Holland was involved in the gigantic struggle of the great powers of western Europe. In 5 days the main part of my country was either laid waste or reduced to ashes. The tulip fields, in full bloom, the pride of every Hollander, portrayed a symbol of the country's desolate destruction after the wheels of Mars' juggernaut had trampled them. For a few days, the whole world's attention was focussed on Holland. Then, the war moved on. New battles took place and my country's plight no longer was expressed in the headlines...
George W. Bergquist, of Minneapolis, Minn., Harvard '38; Gordon F. Bloom, of Buffalo, N. Y., Buffalo '39; James MacG. Burns, of Burlington, Mass., Williams '39; Arthur A. Compton, of Chicago, Ill., Wooster, '39; Charles H. Coombs, Jr., of Brockton, Harvard '40; James George, of Toronto, Ont., Canada, University of Toronto '40; Paul G. Haaga, of Memphis, Tenn., Tennessee '37; William E. Jaqua, of Claremont, Calif., Pomona '38; Charles F. Kiefer, Jr., of New York, George Washington University '40; Arthur A. Maass, of New York, Johns Hopkins University...