Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William McFee was born in London. Most of his life he has spent in ships as a seagoing engineer. He has shown me the engine-room of a fruit vessel with as much pride as the script of a new novel. His stateroom, however, was always filled with a store of books, books piled here and there, until there was scarcely a place to sit, and McFee in the midst of them, spinning a yarn to the captain, explaining with pride to his visitors the glories of the ship...
...believes that he has failed, and sometimes not even then. Among the great prophets, reformers, and leaders of mankind some have died thinking that their labors had been in vain, their mission a failure or their cause lost, when in fact after their death their work has borne abundant fruit from generation to generation. If this is true of them it is no less true of countless others unknown to fame but by the good they have done shining in God's firmament as the start for ever. There has never been a failure greater than to his disciples Christ...
...dietitian of Sarah Bernhardt. She proposes to impart to the American populace some of the dietetic principles which made the divine actress one of the seven wonders of the modern world for her vitality at an advanced age. Bernhardt's diet was simple and salutary - orange juice, stewed fruit, eggs, whole wheat bread, baked potatoes, salads, etc. Many Americans are undeniably foolish eaters, but Dr. Stevens will find that American dietitians have been proclaiming such principles with good effect these many years...
Bandicoots, Fruit Pigeons, Tasmanian Devils...
...climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts. The Whitney South Sea Expedition, under Rollo H. Beck, has found specimens of a number of birds either unknown or long thought extinct, including Peale's petrel, the fruit pigeon of Rapa, red-tailed tropic bird, shearwater and others. Every island group in Polynesia has its own species of warbler, with amazing variability...