Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This floating ocean pasturage is forever changing. Where diatoms flourish one season, next season there may be few. Fish, birds, seals, whales follow the diatoms up and down the seas. When biologists have found the causes of the diatoms' mysterious shifts, they may be able to advise fishermen where the best catches can be netted, and how large future catches will be. Newly hatched fry often feed on diatoms before becoming carnivorous. Poor pasturage can mean survival of few fry, poor catches for fishermen...
Oceanographer Allen reports that in years of unusually warm Pacific water, diatoms were fewer. Diatoms flourish best in cold water, which contains more dissolved carbon dioxide than warm. Result is the well-known abundance of whales, seals, big fish in polar regions...
...replaced. Registered unemployment last month had reached a 20-year-low figure of 705,279. Of these, some 75,000 are unemployable. Economists estimate that Britain's high standard of living, under which workers normally enter industry late and retire early, fewer women work, and numerous luxury industries flourish, provides a reserve of 3,000,000 workers. A 10% lengthening of the working week makes up for an additional 2,000,000. That still leaves a deficiency of 1,000,000 workers, partially offset by the employment of a quarter-million aliens as an "international labor force...
Enter Germans? Against the parade of catastrophes Italy could talk only of the help it was going to get from its Axis partner. With a flourish General Francesco Pricolo, Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force, announced the withdrawal of Italian airmen from Channel bases and the imminent arrival of Nazi airmen in the Mediterranean area: ''The common work will bind ever more those spirits already tempered by the conflict that has taken place and will cement them in a more intimate brotherhood of arms...
...words of Congregationalist Professor Edward Chauncey Baldwin spurred into action the B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant), biggest and best-known Jewish fraternal organization. Results are the Hillel Foundations, akin to the Westminster Foundations (for Presbyterians), Newman Clubs (for Catholics), and other denominational societies which flourish on U. S. campuses. Fastest growing of the lot, Hillel Foundations now serve 30,000 young Jews in 50-odd colleges as religious, cultural, recreational and social centres...