Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the public, as well as their elected representatives must realize, is that the armament trade is an international problem, so complicated by technical, political, and moral issues as to render the likelihood of practical legislation virtually nil. The armament trade is bound to flourish so long as the world is torn by the political animosities that threaten it today...
Professor Coolidge expressed to his Eli listeners the earnest desire that the fine spirit and traditions of Pierson College would continue to flourish on the splendid foundation that its departing master had laid. President Angell of master had laid. President Angell of Yale, the next speaker, continued the eulogy of Mr. Valentine...
...weeds" of my illustration...referred not to New Deal measures, but to other corporations and the general capitalist setup in the Tennessee Valley and elsewhere, among which TVA would have to try to flourish. I was pointing out some of the very difficulties-they have since been made abundantly obvious-which lie in the way of piecemeal planning for the production of power which must be used either by competing corporations or impoverished individuals in a capitalist community...
...garage owner said a man tendered him five $100 bills for a new car, then fled in the old car when he began inspecting the notes. And all the time "Pretty Boy" Floyd was working steadily southward to his favorite haven -the Cookson Hills. Tulsa, Okla., added a final flourish to the affair by lodging against Floyd one more charge: parking overtime three years ago in the business section...
...botanical encyclopedias. But the Russians say he has developed a palatable blend of apple and cherry which is grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed...