Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Natives attributed the eruption to Pele, Hawaiian goddess of Volcanoes. Although Hawaiian mythology relates that Pele long ago agreed never to let the lava-flow menace Hilo, the natives, not altogether confident that the goddess would keep her bargain, sought to appease her last week with offerings of fruit and berries...
Said Mr. Cosgrave: "This crime has not been committed by private individuals against Kevin O'Higgins. It was the fruit of a steady persistent attack against the State and its fundamental institutions. On the head of those who have devoted themselves to that attack lies the blood guilt...
...kissed his 19-year-old bride of six months, who had kept watch on the hotel roof, and hoisted up supplies on a pulley system. Then he prepared to exercise the cramped fingers of his right hand in the pleasant task of signing the vaudeville contract promised as the fruit of his labors...
...Eastman, in supporting the revised International Fixed calendar, distributed new documents last week and called attention to potent businessmen who already favored the idea: President H. Edson White of Armour & Co., Chairman E. M. Beatty of the Canadian Pacific Railway, President V. M. Cutter of United Fruit Co., President George H. Wilcox of International Silver Co., President C. M. Chester Jr. of Postum Cereal Co., President S. L. Willson of American Writing Paper Co., dozens of others...
...fruit of thine endeavor, the success...