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Word: blossoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm, saved money by buying eggs and sending the laundry out. He could truly boast that he had a good-looking campus, one of the most beautiful in the U. S. In a few weeks its apple and cherry trees and its 150,000 daffodil bulbs will begin to blossom. But his principal achievement was what he had done to Swarthmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going Concern | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...until 1918 did The Nation blossom out into a full-blown crusading radical weekly. Publisher Villard had opposed U. S. entry into the war, and in The Nation he set out to blast imperialism, war, monopoly, reaction. The Nation campaigned to have U. S. troops recalled from Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, denounced the Treaty of Versailles, fulminated against lynching, helped to uncover the Teapot Dome oil scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nation's 75th | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Included in the herbarium are some 15,000 different species of this rare flower, representing all the colors of the rainbow; some with leaves, others without; and some that grow and blossom underground. A majority of the flowers grew on rocks and in trees, but there are some non-wild and common orchids of the type worn in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oakes Ames Gives Orchid Collection to Harvard Museum | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

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