Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor nodded reassurance on both counts. The Marine signed off with a flourish...
Sixty or more aspiring Crimson trackmen are expected to gather in the Varsity Club tonight at 7:15 o'clock as Jaakko Mikkola opens the spring season with a flourish. Movies will be shown, and Jerry Nason, sports editor of the Boston Globe and one of the nation's top experts on the cinder sport, will speak...
...rolled up his shirt sleeve with a flourish as he entered the small, very white room. When his eyes got used to the glare from the gleaming walls, Vag saw what he knew he should have expected, but hadn't. He counted them, five women lying on their backs on what looked like operating tables. He gaped at the black, serpentine rubber pipes that seemed to have risen out of small bottles and attached themselves to the women's arms. He watched intently as the red stuff seeped into the bottles...
...snow and ice and gas rationing close in on the American home, U.S. games manufacturers are looking forward to their biggest season in years. And that means big.* The old games still flourish. But the real news in games is War, for now the U.S. has lost its military inhibitions...
Thus the castor bean will flourish from Illinois and Indiana to Texas, at least until the China trade is restored. The Rio Grande Valley of Texas has already jumped into production on the basis of four crops per year on each farm. The first commercial castor-oil crushing plant went into operation at Brownsville last spring, ready to process a million pounds of oil this year...