Word: blooms
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There are a few points in Freddy's style, however, which have not reached the full bloom of maturity, and it is with these that I am concerned. I am sure he will no mind if I play the critic, but will take it all in the spirit of helpful cooperation in which it is intended...
...Steel Workers Organizing Committee has contracts with 565 producers and fabricators of steel, but Little Steel producers, including Messrs. Schwab and Grace, still stick to E. R. P. (modified so that the workers now support it). Last week NLRB Trial Examiner Frank Bloom, investigating a C. I. O. complaint, recommended that Bethlehem be required to abolish E. R. P. in nine of its 21 plants...
...examination, most readers will find Prokosch to be unreliable. An Austrian-American, instructor at Yale, Frederic Prokosch has written two novels (The Asiatics, The Seven Who Fled) which tickled occidental yogi-men. An able verbal fakir, Prokosch, by playing solemn tricks with the sounds of words, makes his poems bloom like a fakir's mango tree...
...group, for one of its members was gentle, modest Mrs. Avery Coonley, daughter of Capitalist Dexter Mason Ferry (Ferry Seeds), who was running a little Progressive school in Downer's Grove, Ill. Watered by Mrs. Coonley's gifts, P. E. A. flourished and Progressive Education burst into bloom...
Even schoolboys know that birds mate in the spring, but even a bright schoolboy could hardly tell why. Biologist James C. Perry of Cincinnati's Xavier University, no schoolboy by a long shot, was convinced last week that it is not so much the flowers that bloom in the spring as what birds eat that affects their mating cycle. Other investigators had advanced the theory that increased exposure to sunlight in the spring is the sex stimulus. This theory they checked experimentally by inducing sex gland activity with artificial illumination. It looked as if the light stimulated the front...