Word: throve
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...traders to the romantic notions of poets. For most of us, however, the East is thought of as a new discovery; a discovery that begins with the thrilling adventures of Marco Polo. Few realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely Mongolian types appear in some of the Sienese paintings of the thirteenth century...
...which was ground the corn eaten by the first president of Yale. The historian further informs us that he who has never tasted "pone" bread made from the corn-meal ground in the old-fashioned water mills has missed the greatest of body-building foods, the food upon which throve the husky pioneer of colonial days. By the ancient method was retained all the valuable ingredients that made the flour nourishing, and that are carefully removed by the modern process...
...shorter epigrammatic or aphoristic sayings which their friends all recall so well, full of meaning, full of kindliness and humor, never sarcastic, but always keen. Occasionally, too, they were full of fiery wrath. This James humor has often been referred to as of Irish origin. If so, it certainly throve well on American soil. It pointed also to the wide vision of real culture and to experience with men and books, thus showing itself to be cosmopolitan or universal, rather than racial. Certainly old and young, rich and poor, foreigner and native, appreciated its great charm and penetration. Sometimes...