Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been formed, to perpetuate control of the industry beyond the life of existing patents. The companies named as composing the monopoly are the Radio Corporation of America, General Electric Company, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Western Electric Company, Inc., Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, International Radio Telegraph Company, United Fruit Company, Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company...
...daughter of the great pianist and composer Franz Liszt. A strange and rather fearsome complication ensued. Von Bülow magnanimously renounced his wife and their several children to his former friend. After an interval Richard and Cosima were married, and the fruit of their union was the present Siegfried. It was to commemorate the birth of this son that Wagner wrote his most blithesome work, Siegfried, the third of the Ring tetralogy. On the morning after the child was born, he gathered a band of musicians in his house, surprised and awakened his wife with the sound...
Edward W. Bok's offer of $100,000 for a practical plan to promote peace (TIME, Jan. 7) bore fruit that tasted differently in different mouths. Its text was made public, with two summaries attached, the shorter of which follows...
...suggestion of Premier Poincare of France for the formation of two committees of experts to examine the vexing question of German finances, made to the Reparations Commission early this month (TIME, Dec. 10) at last bore fruit...
...much talk of Mr. Johnson's hold on the Progressives having weakened because he followed the " regulars " too closely in the last Congress. At any rate, both Californians, following this first bloom of their candidacies, must pass through a long and hazardous growing season before the ripe fruit of election can hang from their laden boughs...