Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late holy war at Dayton, Tenn., gave occasion for a great host of fakirs, professional prophets and pseudo-scientific potboilers to flood the land with cheap literature for and against Evolution. The end of the aftermath is not yet. Even the Bible-sellers have felt the boom and prepared popular editions of that much-feared-for book. But if any new Evolution text for laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New Haven, Conn., where he is an imtimate of Professors Woodruff, Keller...
During the past year rents have proved stable in the East, and to a slightly lesser extent in the Middle West. In the South the trend was downward, except in the "boom" state of Florida. In Tampa, for instance, rents have since last March climbed between...
Pressmen could get no aliment from these reported phone-calls and telegrams; but when, next day, a number of Chinamen were shot down, singly, and for no apparent reason, in widely separated parts of the U. S., typewriters stuttered, and a frightening word began to boom in the headlines of even the conservative papers: TONG...
...deeper the drill went, the higher rose excitement among New Jersey farmers, realtors from as far west as Ohio, invalids and trippers from nearby Lakewood, piney health resort. Gogetters prepared for a boom, securing options, mapping a town. Sceptics believed it merely the renaissance of a New Jersey joke of five years' standing: "Oil in Ocean County...
Statisticians are declaring that the housing shortage is over, and numerous "To Rent" signs confirm their statements. Yet the astonishing construction boom continues. Likewise, old stockbrokers shake their heads and require larger margins, but stocks continue to march upward...