Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communism will flourish wherever living conditions are bad, and especially where there is a wide gulf between the standards of the rich and those of the poor...
...Mariaschin, one of the fanciest ball-handlers and best set shots in Crimson basketball history, will be bowing out, as will forward Leo Page, and substitutes John Noble and Jack Clark. It is reasonable to assume that these gentlemen are anxious to end their college court careers with a flourish...
...piece of poetry which reappears most often is the line "The sweet remembrance of the just shall flourish when they sleep in dust." Its brevity must have been its biggest selling point. Various puritanical attitudes of life come out in this tombstone poetry...
...when 70% of the replies agreed that either the nation's penmanship was getting no better, or it was getting worse. In many schools, classes in penmanship had been abolished; in others, kids are now taught to print, but not to write. The day of the curlicue and flourish, and of arm exercises, seemed to be over. Examples...
...next few decades college teaching of the humanities will undergo great changes and will flourish as never before," predicted President Conant last night...