Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What we need most to understand," said Professor Auer, "is the fact that the tutorial system is a fine thing for a college, but can not be fitted into a university. It is possible to make this system flourish in American universities, so long as these universities have undergraduate students, and the tutorial system is confined to them. However, some lecture courses are needed for stimulation; the work would tend to become intolerably boring if confined to tutorials and reading alone...
...dictator who does everything with a flourish and is quite apt to do two opposite things at once is Poland's gruff temperamental, walrus-whiskered Marshal Josef Pilsudski. On the same day last week the Polish Government made historic peace overtures to Adolf Hitler-whom most Poles hate and fear-and staged with real tear-gas bombs a sensational sham air raid on Warsaw, a capital to whose citizens "air raid" means a German air raid...
...fence. He said that they were all very sorry to hear of the deed and had set their ace of detectives on the trail of the evildoers. Mr. Bob Lampoon himself set out after the perpetrators of the crime and at last was rewarded with success. With a quick flourish of the wrist, he moved back the table cover and showed underneath, the missing property. The Elis cheered, and cheered, and late that night sent it back to New Haven under special guard in a special crate. It had been kept in a house in a neighboring village...
...morning fog had weighted the turnip-shaped gasbag with a heavy load of moisture; a drop in temperature had caused the hydrogen to contract. Nevertheless the crew of three aeronauts and two 'chute jumpers sealed themselves in the spherical gondola for a takeoff. W^ith a dramatic flourish Air Commander Garankidze waved the ground crew to cast off. The huge bag rose groggily about 10 ft. It wobbled sideways across the airdrome, but not an inch higher would it go. The ground crew dragged the bag back; part of the heavy apparatus was unloaded. Still no luck. After...
During the year which has since elapsed, capitalism has demonstrated to many people that in a grave emergency it has the capacity to save itself. But if capitalism has saved itself, government and not business has been the instrumentality. Insofar as capitalism continues to flourish, it will be within an industrial system very different from that which the Harvard Business School has' up to now postulated in its teaching. The economic system of the future will be a functional one, it will be planned, and it will be, to an as yet indeterminate degree, dependent on government...