Word: flourishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the bass into a fruity contralto. Warmed up now, he launched into the difficult final movement with confidence. The tuba lumbered along in its elephantine way and right into another cadenza. This time Catelinet's solo came off well, and tuba and player ended with a fine flourish...
...with such out-of-the-ordinary novels as Lady into Fox, The Sailor's Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when George Bernard Shaw, watching him play in a children's charade, dubbed him a "born actor." Botany was his choice, but it failed to flourish in air that was positively humid with literary precipitations. All that survives today of Botanist Garnett is a pinheaded fungus named Discinella Minutissima Ramsbottom et Garnett...
Killian paid tribute to Cambridge for "its benign influence on three such great institutions as Harvard, M.I.T. and Radcliffe, permitted to flourish here...
Meanwhile, there is the ever-present problem of finding nutrient soil in which the deb can flourish. The steady, promising young man of 30-mother's invariable choice for a son-in-law-seldom has time for the social round, so the deb for the most part must frolic with a younger, less stable type, whose main qualifications are strong legs for dancing and a talent for witty sophistication. Since such gay blades are not always reliable, the mothers at the Berkeley were busy last week grading them according to a private code. Those who rated NST (not safe...
...Collegiate way of living" for their pupils and, drawing one thousand pounds from John Harvard's legacy, they built the "Old College." Modeled for beauty instead of endurance, the building began to totter twenty-five years later and was abandoned. The super-functional design of Grays, lacking the Victorian flourish of its period, indicates that its creators sacrificed beauty to avoid the fate of the "Old College...