Word: prosperities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local Councils elected by the local foreign tax payers. Between 30,000 and 40,000 foreigners now live in the International Settlement and the French Concession. Over 1,200,000 Chinese have come, as a matter of privilege, into the foreign settlements, because there they are safe and prosper under good government...
...Governor General's fight for the control of the failing Philippine National Bank continued. Year by year, since its organization in 1916, its loans to sugar planters and mills have increased; now, its losses total $40,000,000. General Wood feels that under new control it may prosper...
Then after a trail has been cleared it comes right back and begins to grow up again. The clearing lets in more light for the remaining trees, which grow the faster in that direction. Seedlings take root and prosper. Each winter trees fall across the path from two or three to twenty or thirty to the mile according to the severity of the storms and the local conditions; and once or twice in a generation there comes a storm that lays low whole stretches of forest and obliterates miles of trail. Aside from such storms a trail long maintained...
German bankers pontifically presume that, if they prosper, they can help their country prosper...
Butterflies prosper, indeed, live longer, when their heads have been cut off. Professeur Bouvier based his report on research made by Abbé Cambouet, missionary to Madagascar, who experimented there on 80 big, bloom-patterned flutterers...