Word: prospered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile McAdoo's fortunes did not prosper well. By a 5 to 3 vote ex-Governor James M. Cox, Democratic nominee in 1920, secured the Ohio delegation from McAdoo...
...Central continued to prosper under the Commodore's son, William H. Vanderbilt. In 1879, however, "W. H." tired of administration, competition with Jay Gould and legislative attack; he also had serious doubts as to the advisability of one man's having as much money and power as he had. Accordingly, he sold control of the system to a banking syndicate headed by the then rising and brilliant young banker, J. P. Morgan. Practically ever since, the road has been financed by the Morgan group...
...against time is no doubt good for the soul. Especially salubrious is the discipline following failure to comply. A man in good standing at the beginning of his third year might congratulate himself too enthusiastically. If he faces probation for other causes he vails his stomach--and his neighbors prosper. Nor can there be forgotten the opportunities for intercourse with the faculty gained by a student who takes examination after examination. The instructors are friendly, of course, the student eager for learning. Both appear to their best advantage, cordial, disinterested, and sharing an admiration for the language in question...
...Permanent Court of International Justice. Such public action, however, supplemented as it is by private enterprise, is too limited to be adequate as our full share in the task of making this world one in which it is possible for our nation and other nations to live and prosper. For nothing is more certain than that the peace and prosperity of the United States are directly dependent upon the prosperity and peace of the world. Such action, public and private, is important chiefly as a sign that the people of the United States recognize this truth...
...Russian producer Danchenko announced that he will " modernize " Carmen. That is, he will retain the present musical form as much as possible, but will change the libretto to make it more realistic and conform it as far as possible to the original novel, Carmen, by Prosper M´erim...