Word: flourishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own grandfathers. The first great photographer, Matthew Brady, portrayed Lincoln many times in the course of the Civil War, and generations of schoolboys have studied Brady's portraits. Few ever saw the beardless, relatively untried Lincoln opposite, which was displayed with a Lincoln's Birthday flourish this week in Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
...difficult to se how gaiety can flourish under so much tension, but the West Berliner plays as hard as he works--almost with desperation. theatres, night-clubs, and smoky jazz joints are jammed. so are the great sport places and the beaches of Wansee. The shop windows and the passing women along Kurfustendam are among the most stylish in Europe. Even the ladies of leisure on Joachimstalerstrasse take great pains to make themselves intriguing and attractive...
...chief aim of undergraduate education is to discover what it means to be a man. This has always to be done in personal individual terms. A college will be strong, therefore, only where those studies flourish whose principal value is to arouse such awareness and where they are taught with charm and vigar and win respect...
With a loud flourish of trumpets, the Liebmann Breweries (fourth largest in U.S.) announced that next year's Miss Rheingold, elected over some 1,200 other sudsy beauties by the nation's beer-lovers, will be elfish Nancy Woodruff, 21, a homespun girl from Oakland, Calif. But what really made Nancy newsworthy was her affinity for fluids: she was last year's Miss Anti-Freeze...
...chief executive officer of Fred Harvey, Inc., mid-and-far-western restaurant and hotel chain; of an intestinal blockage; in Chicago. Born the year his father opened the first Harvey restaurant at the Santa Fe Railroad station in Topeka, Kans., Byron Harvey grew up with the chain, watched it flourish as his father staffed it with the best-looking waitresses he could find. He succeeded to the presidency himself in 1928, in 26 years tripled the volume of business, served 30 million meals a year in Harvey restaurants, hotels and shops...