Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American scientists . . . hold fast to their conviction, that . . . science is wholly independent of national boundaries and races and creeds and can flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom. ... It is in this light that we publicly condemn the fascist position towards science. The racial theories which they advocate have been demolished time and again. We need only point to the work of Heinrich Hertz in physics, Fritz Haber and Richard Willstatter in chemistry, Ludwig Traube, Paul Ehrlich and August Wassermann in biology and medicine, all German Jews and all empirical [observational and experimental] scientists. The charge that theory...
...sudden conclusions. They 'up and do things' that are for once and for all," as he describes them in his introduction. With the simplest of words and rhyme, Coffin attempts in this little volume to draw these folk, their acts, and lives that snuff out with a brief, "flourish of finality" pathetic in its inconspicuousness...
...committee of eminent scientists, including three Nobel Prize winners, Franz Boas, professor of Anthropology, emeritus, at Columbia, said the manifesto was based on a resolution of the American Association for the Advancement of Science which stated that science was wholly independent of national boundaries, and "races and creeds can flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom...
What has made the Redskins the adopted alma mater of thousands of Washington residents is a simple formula: spectacular football and smart showmanship concocted in the right proportions by their Big Chief, George Preston Marshall. Big Chief Marshall has always done things with a flourish. When he inherited his father's laundry 20 years ago (at 22), he in vented the slogan "Long Live Linen," splashed it all over Washington, dressed his delivery boys in blue-&-gold livery, soon seemed to have a branch on almost every street corner and was washing the fanciest sheets and dressiest shirts...
...responsibility and must be our destiny to prove to ourselves and to a suffering and disillusioned world that democracy can exist, can grow, and can flourish in this modern age. This is not a responsibility that can be shouldered merely by the adoption of many untried social reforms, but must be solved by hard work, by intelligent citizenship, by widespread public education, by constant vigilance, by rejection of old prejudices and outworn ideas and by a determination on the part of all the people to preserve their individual liberties so that their faith in democracy will be justified...