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Word: nourishment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the first call goes through, the event will mark not only a noteworthy technical achievement. It will be even more likely to nourish financial hopes among holders of telephone company stocks. All summer long A. T. & T. stock, usually conservative in its behavior, has been booming along in the stock market at prices up to 292, which is 23 times earnings. The hopefulness of the speculators has not been based on expected revenue from telephone conversations with Buenos Aires. The point is that A. T. & T. is in a position to take the lead in any major telephone merger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Dream | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Decidedly not in "agreement with Catholic doctrine" had been the Mussolini statement that "the Catholic religion was born in Palestine but became Catholic in Rome. If it had remained in Palestine it would probably have been one of the many sects which nourish in that heated atmosphere like the essence of therapeutics, and it would have nickered out without leaving a trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Animosity in Soul | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...their use. Hitherto, former members of the varsity boat have been welcomed at the crew house and arrangements made for their presence in one of the coaching launches, but the present invitation to all alumni of whatever description is an unusually thoughtful courtesy. It should do much to nourish the atmosphere of amateurism and friendly sportsmanship which has always been more noticable in rowing than any of the other college athletic activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINNING IN SECRET | 4/26/1929 | See Source »

...could be hear to drop, and this on the day of the last game in Cambridge. But from the very decadence of a past may spring the fertilization of new growth; let every man bear these words in mind when he takes his place among those who nourish fond hopes with absent treatment. And as the ball goes tearing down the grid-graph, damned be he who fails to cry "hold that line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...name "Gold Coast" was applied to these buildings long before there was such a profession as bootlegging and arose from the fact that the rents excluded all but wealthy tenants.. Unwilling to nourish this possibility for distinction by wealth, the College purchased all the "Gold Coast" dormitories and has placed the price of rooms on a level with the other dormitory accommodations. Though located in a part of Cambridge that is less than a mile in width, no part of the "Gold Coast" is nearer than three quarters of a mile to the Somerville line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errata | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

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