Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dairy cattle neither thrive nor give much milk in damp, semitropical climates. In Florida and Louisiana, the milk flow of Jerseys, Guernseys and other familiar breeds falls off as much...
...among the best milch cattle in India, although their production, averaging 2,000 Ibs. a year, is poor by U.S. standards (5,800 Ibs. average). But the Bureau of Animal Industry hopes to develop eventually a Sindhi-Jersey cross which will combine good milking qualities with ability to thrive and flourish in hot climates...
...disease seems to strike hardest at the healthiest; because children with vitamin deficiencies seem to resist infection, doctors surmise that the polio virus does not thrive on undernourished body cells...
...present document was foisted on the student body by the Student Council in 1936, was accepted by 17 members of that year's Council and by no one else, and has managed to thrive on college-wide indifference and slothfulness ever since. A student body that endows its governing organization with $5000 per year, that relies on this body for its sole representation before the Administration of the University, has accepted Council after Council at face value without realizing that this group unilaterally has assumed existence, power, and rules. If there are faults in the organization, if there are unhealthy...
...goldens are nothing more than rainbows who get their Technicolor from isolation in volcanic streams which have a bottom of red granite. They thrive only at elevations above 10,000 feet. At one time, California exchanged fish with other states and golden trout were planted in Idaho and Wyoming; then California decided that the fish were too valuable to share...