Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism of Mr. Max Benshimol '95 of the New Preparatory School was especially bitter. "No institution can thrive on injustice," he asserted, "and the recent ruling is certainly an unjustice. I believe in preliminary fall examinations...
Censorship is daughter of Intolerance, and member of a large family of Thou-shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower...
...Vitamin. Experiments with the diet of white rats disclosed that on a certain diet they will thrive but will not produce young or, if they have young, will not have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin...
...Practicality does not thrive in circumstances where shortage of officers makes it necessary to detail, as instructors with civilian components, officers who have not had sufficient duty with a unit of their own branch of service. Practicality does not thrive in inactive units, depleted strengths, imaginary maneuvers, paper plans, fictitious reserve stocks and theoretical weapons...
...idealists and the newspapers will torture them out of their natural shape as they have tortured everything that has fallen into their clutches. Let them alone, to be nothing more than good sportsmanship with a little "blowing off of steam" to add zest, and they will continue to thrive-and to bring about good results in their own natural time