Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outburst was the calmer voice of former Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, who pleaded: "Let this monument of our genesis be ... a symbol not only of the past but of our reconciliation . . ." Judge Newton Thompson bluntly spoke for South Africans of British descent: "If you want our country to flourish and be happy, then you must take us with you, not as your subordinates . . . but as your equals at your side...
...that followed was long and bitter ("Must a gentleman eat with a mucker?" cried the clubmen). In the end, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and the rest of the clubs continued to flourish for the benefit of juniors and seniors who as sophomores had been lucky enough to get elected...
...kinds will be used far more than today. The proportion of people completing high school and spending some time in college will rise ... A nation on a 30-hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts . . . The chance is good that the arts will flourish in the United States as never before in the history of the world...
...rate has proved quite an attraction in this respect. Finally, Cambridge-unlike such one industry cities as Fall River, Lynn, and Gloucester-is somewhat depression-resistant in that it boasts diversification of trades. Candy, soap, chemicals, metals, and printing companies-as well as colleges-continue to flourish here...
...years, Oregon has had a law forbidding high-school secret societies but in Oregon's largest city, high-school kids have paid no attention. In Portland (pop. 400,000), the societies flourish. They have mysterious names like EUK, Pack and Domino; they pledge socially prominent classmates, hotshot athletes or just kids "who have something," from convertibles to "cute personalities...