Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Madcap though he may have seemed, Bennett made the Herald thrive. In the '70s and early '80s, it had the best staff of reporters and editors in the U. S. Mark Twain and Walt Whitman wrote for it. The decline of the Herald began when the late Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst entered the New York field as competitors, with the World and the American, respectively...
...such periods have never been conducive to poetry, at least of an epic scale. One can readily see how mediocre verse fits in with the skeptic's view of things--it gives him cause to crab at the age's low level--and how their mutual dependency makes them thrive under such consoling companionship. At the same time, but perhaps not so patently, one may see how great poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought to kneel to worship the brave...
Midwives still live and thrive in rural districts, announced Dr. Joe P. Bowdoin of the Georgia Board of Health. Many counties in Georgia have no physicians. Of the 65,000 babies born in 1927, about one-third were delivered by midwives, most of whom were old, ignorant, superstitious Negroes. Dr. Bowdoin told of the health board's work in instructing and certifying the 5,000 midwives, accompanied by a gratifying drop in deaths from childbirth...
...patient votaries of that curious collegiate cult called "Buchmanism," received last week one of the rebuffs upon which they thrive. The Oxford Isis published a scornful editorial which spoke of "restraint flung aside . . . souls laid bare . . . hysterical confessions . . . fervor which no longer pretends to be religious . . . perverted religious mania . . ." and concluded with these stern and sober words...
...Halls, and on earth Satyrs, serenely beautiful. These Satyrs were the first and best to cultivate the earth and the arts of music, weaving, medicine, meteorology. In fact they grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny and hornless creatures. But the earth-crawlers spent their happy, ignorant days in pleasant...