Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of excluded men. If the responsibility of selection rests with a committee of several different persons it would make it difficult for these men to get adequate explanation of their exclusion. False impressions of favoritism on the part of some members of the committee would be allowed to flourish, and in general the situation would be unfortunate...
...sold all her private property for about $180,000, moved to a cheap boarding house near Bonn. She offered to pay Suhkov 10,000 marks ($2,400) for the return of her letters, he having already embarrassed her by writing his amorous memoirs and dedicating them with a sly flourish to her brother, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm...
...definite ideas on the subject. A pitched battle ensued and the Employment Office gained an initial victory, emerging from the contest with colors flying. Five hundred more sandwiches than the senior partners thought wise were to be ordered. The triumph was celebrated by the winners with a great flourish of sandwich-eating while the Cadets marched by in orderly array...
...adventurer is very much akin to this problem of the artisan. One of the greatest questions confronting the deans of Harvard Yale, and Princeton is that of undergraduate-aviators. At Princeton, the students are no longer allowed to have airplanes. At Yale and Harvard, undergraduate flying clubs flourish under very lukewarm official approval. In both communities, the clubs have become exceedingly popular. Their members are adroit and expert aviators, but, for the most part, lamentable scholars. The academic mortality of members of the flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough, for the members spend...
Summer institutes continued to flourish last week. Receiving most attention were still the Institute of Public Affairs, Charlottesville, Va., and the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass. (TIME...