Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Law Enforcement Commission, after a four-month holiday, went to grips again with Prohibition last week. As its eleven members gathered in Washington, Chairman George Woodward Wickersham, all a-twinkle with good humor, remarked to curious newsmen: "You never can tell what kind of blossom will bloom until the plant develops...
...calls "May" was a diamond pendant. No one could say whether she wore it or not at the Court, so encrusted was she with ropes, pendants and brooches of diamonds. Of the 14 U. S. citizenesses presented Miss Carolyn Farrar Apperson Leech of Louisville, Ky. and Miss Vera Bloom of New York most engaged British newsfolk. They learned from southern friends of Miss Leech that "she founded the international observance of Armistice Day." Miss Bloom, they discovered, is a daughter of the man who built the Midway Plaisance at Chicago's World's Fair, Congressman Sol Bloom...
...buttons, making his stars perform like trained seals. With a flashlight beam, he singled out celestial bodies in the ceiling, told their names. Once the preliminaries were over and Teacher Fox had his 2,700 stars - all those visible from Chicago's side of the earth - in full bloom, he set the universe into action at a dizzy pace. Earth, a brisk little body, made her yearly trip around the sun in four minutes. Neighbor Mars required 7.2 min.; poky Jupiter 47.2 min.; Saturn 2 hr., 56 min. Scurrying Venus made her lap in 148 sec.; Mercury...
...suddenly as it appeared, the Botanic peril vanished, leaving mystified students to retire to their habitual calm and wonder what a Botanic Garden was, after all. With the first bright rays of spring sunshine, however, the Botanic Gardens once more bloom securely on the front page of the morning paper, but this time in the tranquil atmosphere of compromise. The Harvard administration and the local gardening forces have settled their difficulties to their mutual satisfaction. The buds will sprout in peace this spring, for the war of the roses is over...
...small measure to a faith which greatly admires and encourages prosperity. Mormons irrigated, planted and built with as much persistence as they prayed. A striking fact is that the Mormons did not dig in the ground 'for metallic wealth but concentrated on husbandry. They made a desert bloom. A good Mormon, and the "good" percentage is extraordinarily large, abstains from tea, coffee, tobacco, liquor. He pays a tithe (one-tenth) of his entire income to the Church. He hearkens to the Mormon proverb "the glory of God is intelligence." Thus does the Church seek health, wealth and wisdom...