Word: blossoming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jitterbug," declared veteran composer Sigmund Romberg (Student Prince,Blossom Time), "is the healthiest kind of exercise. There's no sex in it like those 'lights low' dances after the last war. But I predict its eventual demise...
...weekly (he rechristened it the Sun, too) across the Columbia River at Portland, Ore., and snatched, for a small down payment, a million-dollar Portland printing plant. He had served notice on Portland's venerable Oregonian and the Oregon Journal that they would have some competition "by apple blossom time." Fortified with income from three radio stations and his Coos Bay Times ("westernmost daily in the U.S."), he was making threatening gestures toward Spokane, Boise and points south-as far as San Francisco...
...example of one bud which nearly didn't blossom, he lists James Reed '29. One bright afternoon in the autumn of 1928 Jaakko saw what looked to him like a wonderful distance prespect loping down past the Stadium, waving, of all things, a lacrosse stick. This, of course, was a mistake and it didn't take the Crimson track coach long to convince the erstwhile stickman that his destiny was track not lacrosse. Reed eventually captured the IC4A cross country title and in winning the IC4A outdoor two-mile established a new Harvard record of 9 minutes 22 seconds...
...enterprise to the desert lands, where starvation and disease are as ever-present as heat, they would make friends and influence people where the U.S. sorely needed friends. As the London Economist summed up: "They should be offered the resources of Western technique in making their deserts once more blossom like the rose. Western democracy claims that it stands for a synthesis of enterprise, forethought and trusteeship. It will never have a better chance to prove its case...
...With blossom time at hand, the academic groves automatically began putting forth laurels...