Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens live, thrive, tend their families, amuse themselves, go insane, was a study President Hoover last week assigned to another new commission-The Research Committee on Social Trends-financed by the Rockefeller Foundation...
Trade Scouts. To open up new commercial fields abroad in which the Dollar may grow and thrive is the duty of the Department of Commerce's trade scouts?56 men in two classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet called What the World Wants. There it may be found this week that Rosario, Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour...
Several members of the University, a large enough number to cause considerable trouble to college officials, seem to have decided that the old family surname was not of the right calibre to thrive in the Harvard atmosphere. Consequently, names of racial connotation have been discarded, short names have become longer, undistinguished names have assumed a new dignity. The change is so complete in some instances that it is doubtful whether the family ancestor would recognize the appelation of the offspring...
...Newport News, Va. It was a boiling hot day under a blazing hot sun, but Texans thrive in such weather. There were two good Texans looking the part, Senators Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally. Through the crowd came tripping a little Southern maid, all flowers, Miss Elizabeth Holcombe (daughter of a former Mayor of Houston) followed by a maid of honor. She struck the steady prow of the monster gingerly with a flask of bottled water. She struck again. No damage was done. Up stepped manly Homer Lenoir Ferguson, President of Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (see col. 1), took...
There it was. The elixir, the aquavitae, the Mennen's Food; and upon it he would thrive. Never was there such an opportunity as the city presented for dances and cultivating the society of nice, and what Peter found intelligent girls. From then on he rose late, read all the newspapers and current magazines to be in the swim of conversation, and trained himself for the campaign. Here was the thing, that was lasting; if you made scores of friends, they would be with you all your life and you would have obtained something durable from college...