Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarterback, ran back a punt 30 yards to, the Senior 20-yard mark, and half a dozen slashes through the line took the ball across the line, Barbee tallying on the last plunge. In the second and fourth quarters, sustained offenses yielded two touchdowns, and another drive bore fruit in the form of a field goal from the 20-yard streak...
Hundreds of square miles it covered, the broad upper valley of the Sacramento. Herds of pedigree cattle browsed its meadows. Orchards bowed with tons of fruit. Gardens of European truck spread for acres, efficiently irrigated. The cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers smothered the walls of the master's hacienda where a feast waited-salmon trout, venison, bear's paws, crocodile pears-served on Spanish plate by girls from the Sandwich Isles while a Hawaiian orchestra played the "Marseillaise," the "Berne March...
...Briand afterwards admitted that the Chalet's bustling waiters placed before them fresh caught mountain trout, roast chicken, sausages, peas (served as a separate course in France) and a basket heaped with fruit. What they munched was washed down in good Swiss wine. What they said was later hinted at in an official communique...
...scene shifts to the CRIMSON office. It is late, bed time, perhaps, for the student of well-regulated habits. But not the Photographic candidate. He is in the dark room, developing the negatives which have been the fruit of his day's labors. And again he is asked...
...Hamilton Fyfe, famed "most traveled editor," author of The Fruit of the Tree, threw up his job as editor of the Daily Herald of London last week, took passage for Australia, declared: "I'm going back to vagabondage...