Word: boom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot be denied that French and English industry is in a dangerously low condition. Particularly France will need aid for many years. Neither can it be denied that the United States was engaged in war only long enough to give her industry a hearty boom. To be sure this country has amassed a great debt and submitted to heavy taxation; yet its condition is more prosperous than in 1914. However America placed no limit upon her resources when she joined her Allies. Every penny of the nation's wealth was thrown upon the altar; that it was not sacrificed...
...months the men have heard talk of housing and, in not a few cases, it is a local real-estate boom, or builders with something to sell, or some interested concern that is talking loudest, and they feel, not unnaturally, discouraged after these landlord experiences. And all this time nothing is really done. The men endure, the work goes on, but it drags and every day the call from the other side is more insistent. This is something that no Y. M. C. A., no Knights of Columbus, can handle: neither State nor City can do it, only the Government...
...books of 1916, contributed but 8,107 to the lists for 1917. Imported books fell from 1,648 to 1,324 in the two-year period of comparison; American prints of foreign works rose from 367 to 629, this increase being accounted for by the natural boom in war books...
...Technology for the first time in its history. Heretofore fall and spring rowing on the river has been the extent of the training at Tech., but with 50 candidates reporting last October and with the new location of the Institute near the river, rowing has been given a boom as a popular sport. As this winter rowing is a new departure, its future success or failure depends on the support it gets this year, and the present indications are that, although it breaks in on hockey and track, its future is assured...
...Volunteers in Europe." This volume is composed of letters written by Harvard men from the French and British lines, scrawled off for the most part at the front with no thought of future publication; and consequently conveying the freshest kind of pictures. The book carries with it, from Europe, boom of guns, the whirring of aeroplane motors and the signs of dying men-the whole set down in the vivid and picturesque words of young men who have seen great things...