Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaped coral islands, which he decided to call "by their Indian name of atolls." He wondered about those saucers of coral standing on steep-sided platforms above the deep ocean floor. Why their ring shape? How had they been formed? It was known that reef-building corals did not thrive more than a few fathoms below the surface. Certainly the islands had not grown upward from the depths. The atolls, he concluded, must have been formed when islands sank, and the coral reefs fringing their shorelines continued to grow. "For as mountain after mountain, and island after island slowly sank...
...parasite? Two years ago, Dr. Barlow decided on a sacrificial investigation. Infecting himself with Egyptian flukes (220 of them, by a count of stings), he hastened to Washington, urged Public Health Service officials to let him turn his schistosomes loose in snail-populated waters to see whether they could thrive in the U.S. Officials recoiled in horror, told him to stick to the laboratory...
...club with a new coach and personnel who haven't played together for any length of time, the Varsity turned in a fairly good performance. Whether it will be good enough to thrive against Ivy League competitors, most of whom are regarded as topflight, remains to be seen...
...shot looked backwards. On one three-quarter-inch putt last week, he went through all the footwork and club-positioning that he used on a ten-footer. After a match, he usually retired to Maniac Hill (the practice range) to work on some minor flaw. Ben Hojan seemed to thrive on tension and hard work...
...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...