Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the size of Florida-is tropical forest covering mountains up to 7,000 feet high. In this jungle, inhabited by tigers, elephants, bison, monkeys, gibbons, deer and bear, alive with all manner of insects, including malaria-bearing mosquitoes, bloodsucking leeches, pythons and multicolored birds, where orchids and rhododendron flourish, there is hidden an army of about 5,000 Communist guerrillas...
...Corwin. Moreover, he added, some researchers fear that they may release a group of compounds called porphyrins. If porphyrins get into the bloodstream, they can make a patient so sensitive to light that he must spend months in a darkened room. (A white mouse injected with porphyrins may flourish in the dark, but will drop dead the instant it is exposed to the light-shock of a photo flashbulb.) Since no such accidents to humans have been reported, Dr. Corwin concludes that the chlorophyll products are not getting into the bloodstream...
...number of important objections to such a plan. Littauer is a general theory school, while regional planning is by necessity specific and practical. In the Design School it supplements the architectural programs, providing a practical outlet for theory. In Littauer, which shuns application, the department would certainly not flourish and might possibly wither completely. Now, regional planning is important to Design's overall program, while it would probably be a dead weight in public administration...
...shouting "Whoa!" Three knocks came on the door, and in swept a bearded young man with glowing black eyes. He was turned out in marten hat, beaver coat, and moccasins embroidered with porcupine quills and spangled with pearls of all colors. Bowing, he removed coat and hat with a flourish, but kept on his black kid gloves. To the pretty daughter of the house, vivacious Blanche, he bowed and said: "Mademoiselle, you are invited...
...Arnold Arboretum, oldest in the world, was established from a bequest of James Arnold which was received by the University in 1872. Called "America's greatest garden" some 6,000 different species and varieties of trees and shrubs flourish on its 265-acre tract in Jamaica Plain...