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Word: burgeoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that launched ATV, now finds his shares worth $1,400,000. Sir Robert Renwick, industrialist and broker who invested $4,200, has shares worth $959,500, and Charles Orr Stanley, chairman of Pye radio and TV company, has seen his shares burgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: TV Gold Mine | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...first saw as a fledgling draftsman of 17 was a vast expanse of gutted ruins, the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1871. Sidewalks were temporary wooden structures; pavements oozed mud. But for Sullivan it was love at first sight. He could foresee that up from the ruins would burgeon a new city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Louis Sullivan: Skyscraper Poet | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

enough to predict that the U.S. will burgeon in the next half-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...sense of deceit, mistrust and danger. Communist terrorists hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with a plan for winning the countryside that the Reds have not yet seized. Although nothing reliable is known about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good American | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...olds (the Depression babies). In 1960 there will be 42 million schoolchildren, 50% more than in 1950. The present decade's marriages, down 20% from the 1940s, will create only 13.7% more families. The trend to the suburbs will continue during the decade; rural non-farm population will burgeon by more than one-third, to 43 million. California in 1960 will have a population of 14.6 million, a jump of 38.3% over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U. S. IN 1960: $6,180 a Year for tne Average Family | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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