Word: booming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...boom in real estate on the western front has been started by an enterprising promoter of Amiens, who is evidently a forward looking man. In Paris newspapers the following advertisement appeared yesterday...
...home today return to sundry breeding-places of "favorite sons." And thereby hangs a moral. The Forum, immediately after the recess, will meet to discuss the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Many fortunate students will escape from the depression of the Weeks boom into atmosphere charged with other enthusiasms. The members of the Chicago Club will find themselves in a water-tight Sherman compartment; Pennsylvania will find Penrose and Brumbaugh (both Harvard men, by the way) contending for laical honors; some may even reach the headwaters of the Missouri where Borah thunders or the Mississippi valley where Hadley...
...Burtt, 1915, won the Ten Eyck prize for public speaking, and P. O. Badger was awarded second place. Yale aeronautics received a boom in the formation of a company at New Haven for the commercialization of aeroplanes and hydroplanes...
...reaction from all this starts with the strained efforts to keep up with increased business and the consequent rise of the average cost of production. Interest rates soar and the efficiency of business management falls off on the top of the boom because the offices are too busy to pay attention to details and small wastes. Then there is an increase in long time borrowing, closely followed by a rise of interest and a complaint of tight capital. This in turn leads to a reluctance to make further investments and an increase of demands for short time loans. The last...
...necessary to compare soccer to American football, nor is it the intention to boom the game by using American football as a buffer. We are but attempting to give an idea of what possibilities are open to every student, who has any athletic ability, to learn a game which he will not only find enjoyable in college, but will also be able to continue after he is graduated. W.S. SEAMANS...