Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Changing the Species.-Some day eyes, complexions, stature, nose lengths may be changed by radiation. Professor Hermann Joseph Muller, famed biologist of the University of Texas, has played the X-ray on fruit flies making them produce strange, outlandish offspring. The pedigreed fruit flies (whose hereditary characteristics had been known for generations) suddenly brought forth anomalies with curiously colored eyes, unreasonable wings, radically bobbed hair antennae. New species came into existence, the special marks of the X-ray were transmitted down the generations. Biologist Muller tried the effect of other agents on the germ plasm. Treatment with lead, arsenic, poisons...
Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle was the only publisher present who does her own fruit canning...
...these olumns that if the Lampoon were going to continue to shout "present" or even "accounted for" in the ranks of the current comics, the best thing it could do was to hoof it to the nearest Liggetts and insert its savings in a tidy stock of Enos Fruit Salts or some equally efficacious cathartic...
...president. Ever since, the Atchison has paid its preferred dividends. Common dividends began in 1901, with $3.50. They changed successively to $4 $4.50, $6, $5, $5.50, $6, then (3 years ago) $7. For more than a year there have been extra $3 dividends on the common stock. That extra-fruit of "Old Man" Ripley's tillage, of present President William Benson Storey's cultivation-the Atchison directors by their action last week regularized...
...California. First there is the Bank of Italy, which he and his stepfather Lorenzo Scatena organized in 1904. Their first clients were the Italians of San Francisco and the heterogeneous fruit growers of the Sacramento Valley, whose pickings Amadeo Peter Giannini and Lorenzo Scatena had long & honestly been selling at commission. Soon there were Bank of Italy branches in the scattered communities of California...