Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, of course, the adherents of each party have their own peculiar tastes. Captain Achmed Abdullah has a breakfast, described as "a dignified, almost pontifical institution", consisting of "always fruit always eggs, always three cups of coffee, and always marmalade, honey or jam", while Jaseha Heifetz asks merely for quality not "always" successfully. Two cups of tea and a cigar satisfy. Ed Wynn, but Billy Sunday demands griddle cakes. Mary Garret Hay is perhaps the most unusual. Breakfast appeals to her "not only physically, but esthetically". She ecstatically insists that "a fine bunch of grapes or a golden orange, crisp...
...shipping. The same dissatisfaction which indirectly brought that about has so augmented coastwise shipping, particularly Pacific, Atlantic, transportation by way of Panama, that a second canal connecting the two oceans was seriously discussed in a Cabinet meeting few days ago. With Panama traffic quadruped since 1914 and the fruit growers of the West turning more and more to the sea to avoid the prohibitive price required to pay the overland carriers, experts forecast that the locks of Gatun and Miraflores will be used to the limit of their capacities within the fifteen years necessary to complete a second passageway...
...purification of athletics and to this end appointed a special committee of nine, three from each university. The three chairmen also to clear certain misunderstandings, had informal conferences at New Haven with other representatives of the three universities and accepted certain principles in the treatment of athletes. The fruit of all these negotiations is seen in the published resolutions of the three presidents...
...wondering overworked author of "The Same as Us" in the CRIMSON for January the 26th, 1923, seems to have "Tasted of forbidden fruit", when he said "a small boy, seeing an inviting green apple dangling before him on somebody else's tree, considers that it is there to be eaten". This morning I dare say that the budding young green critic of genius must be suffering with a "green apple" laugh of satisfaction, when he goes forth into the praising air realizing that "he has made the most of his opportunities and done his duty by the community...
Perhaps there is another way, besides literary theft, to account for the coincidences. The scientists may continue their studies, and perhaps uncover a new Ossian scandal; but meanwhile it is safe to make what conjectures our imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable...