Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This measure was taken for the avowed purpose of attracting wealthy persons to the state-helping it to boom. What Nature has done climatically to improve the constitutions of the dyspeptic rich at Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Pensacola, St. Petersburg, the Law will do for the fortunes of the same people by a most salubrious financial climate...
There is no attempt being made to boom Esperanto as a college study in America, and for the present no such attempt is contemplated. It would, however, pay every Harvard student to learn enough Esperanto for conversation and letter writing. In addition to his smattering or reading knowledge of French, German, Russian, or Japanese. Norman W. Frost, '08. E. E. A. delegito, por Cambridge...
...business outlook continues uncertain and without general trend. Industrial news has been fairly good, on the basis of the heavier seasonal fall and winter activity rather than particular forward progress. Textiles are not yet out of the woods, however, and nowhere is any boom in sight. Cutting of gasoline prices, while temporarily painful to producers and refiners, is a constructive and necessary step in the long...
...present enjoying a boom in Mincing Lane. Russia is beginning to buy once more. British per capita consumption has increased 30% in ten years, and a heavier demand has sprung up in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, India, Arabia and even along the Persian Gulf. Last year's tea-crop was 457,000,000 lb., 90% of it from India and Ceylon; yet demand threatens to outrun supply, and English stocks are weak. From the tea industry's standpoint, U. S. consumption is particularly interesting. In this country, the average family consumes only five pounds...
...match between the Prince's team and a team composed principally of Yale and Harvard men, with one short, sharp tug the American team hauled the Prince's team across the line and down the deck. In a potato race, he was disqualified. A pillow fight on a boom proved irresistible sport. "Here," said the Prince, "I want a shot at that! Get me somebody about my weight. I am 150 pounds." A lanky American lad was found. The two went at each other with such vigor that they both descended to the mattress with dull thuds...