Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Minister, according to the Court ripples, finds that King Edward, when handed a document, puts on his glasses, attentively reads it through, asks quantities of running questions, listens closely to all the answers and only then signs "Edward R.I." The King makes the same flourish under his name he used to make when signing "Edward P." as Prince of Wales...
Most of these interested people stayed away from the game but they would have been present if the admission had included an event which would appeal to a Harvard audience. Intramural sports are an important part of the present athletic policy but they will never flourish until the H.A.A. devotes greater care to arranging the key events of intramural schedules...
...scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradoxes flourish in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones during the past fortnight disclosed the following...
Until this week only doctors and lawyers could legitimately buy Dr. Henry Havelock Ellis' compendious topographical survey of the vast, tangled jungles of sex activities which flourish in human bodies, souls and minds. When in 1897 this inquisitive Englishman published Sexual Inversion, from which was to grow his mighty Studies in the Psychology of Sex, London police promptly arrested the bookseller and confiscated all available copies of this volume. Year later Frank A. Davis of Philadelphia, as a personal favor to Dr. Ellis, began printing his Studies, which eventually ran to seven volumes and retailed...
...namely Bluemantle, Portcullis, Rouge Croix and Rouge Dragon; the Herald of York, the Herald of Windsor, the Herald of Richmond, the Herald of Chester, the Herald of Somerset and the Herald ,of Lancaster; two mace bearers and the workaday state heralds who raised silver trumpets and blew a triple flourish...