Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second only to moose in size, elk thrive on less food than any other deer. They are the hardiest deer, are immune to hoof and mouth disease, Texas fever, lumpy jaw and black tongue. They have "a quiet and contented nature." They dress heavier than any other meat animal. Their meat is considered by many an epicure superior to any meat on the market. It is virtually non-existent commercially, brings $1.50 a lb., and New York City alone would have consumed 3,000 elk carcasses last autumn had they been available. Laboratory tests show that elk flesh...
...ridden country there is little opportunity for educational institutions to thrive. The result of this dearth of facilities for education has been a very distinct increase in the desire of the people for an opportunity to study...
Explanations being now in order. Professor Wegener pointed to the well-known sliding propensities of continents to account for their present state of mutual aloofness, thus causing great offence to Professor Jeffrey, who had based his story of the origin of the earth on opposite premises. Scientific discoveries, however, thrive on opposition, and Professor Wegener is not alarmed by the objections of a few conservatives...
...TIME, Oct. 5 et seq.). Dr. Luther declared, for the 100th if not the 1,000th time, that the Allies have agreed and given evidence of their intention to ease up on the Rhineland, that Germany must sign the Treaties and enter the League of Nations in order to thrive in peace, and that in so doing she would not be pitting herself against Russia on the side of the Allies or giving up the possibility of obtaining future concessions from the Allies...
...Tutoring schools should thrive because of this new ruling." declared Mr. Geoffrey Baker '19 of the Manter Hall School. "This fall our attendance will fall off, but just think of next June! All the men will come then and will require twice as much tutoring, as they will have forgotten so much in a year's time. A year from next September we will have innumerably more students than we would have had, if this new ruling had not been promulgated...