Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer of '43 both Malone and Pottinger left for private publishing houses and Roger Scaife '97, a well-known director of Little, Brown and Co., came on as director. Then, in 1947, the present director, Thomas J. Wilson III, became director. And the Press has continued to flourish...
...complimentary" seats is a systematized as it has been, a football player might just as well be receiving a weekly salary. As commercial as free books or automobiles donated by alumni, such brokerage taints the supposed purity of Harvard football. Insofar as the University allows this practice to flourish, it is subverting the progress it has made along other lines to keep Harvard football an amateur sport...
...place where U.S. businessmen abroad can still flourish in a climate of high-riding free enterprise is the oil-booming republic of Venezuela, on the north coast of South America. Since 1948, when the government and the foreign-owned companies-notably Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Shell, Gulf. Socony-worked out a mutually satisfactory deal that calls, in effect, for a 50-50 split of oil profits, production has shot up to 1,800,000 bbls. a day, flooding the sparsely populated country* with $700 million a year in oil income. The gratified government has thrown the door wide open...
Violinist de Vito, a handsome, erect woman with grey hair and dark eyes, was opening-night soloist. On the concert stage, she showed her Latin dash at once, tucking her violin under her chin with a flourish, then working both hands in the air to limber them before attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate...
...contrary to the public interest for publishers or librarians to determine the acceptability of a book solely on the basis of the personal history or political affiliations of the author. A book should be judged as a book. No art or literature can flourish if it is to be measured by the political views or private lives of its creators. No society of free men can flourish which draws up lists of writers to whom it will not listen, whatever they may have...