Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They have no salmon, few sardines, no canned fruit (not even unpopular plums), a dwindling store of canned vegetables, spaghetti, beans, soup...
Today the encyclicals are finally bearing fruit. Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil of Chicago posed the alternative in 1939 when he addressed a C.I.O. mass meeting of packinghouse workers which inaugurated a national drive to unionize the packers: "If the Catholic Church does not do its duty, workers may have to depend on isms." And last year the N.C.W.C.'s administrative board, which represents the whole American hierarchy, roundly stated: "The first claim of labor, which takes priority over any claim of the owners to profits, respects the rights to a living wage." Pius XI's admonition...
They amassed old books, rifles, farm tools, wagons, toys, wax fruit, chamber pots. They salvaged the whole floor of a barn because members of an early German-American sect had knelt on its boards to pray. When a neighboring hotel was torn down, Henner and George Landis bought its whole barroom. But Henner and George Landis were not antique dealers, never sold so much as a darning needle. They just collected things as a hobby...
...full pages on Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 will feature this week's issue of Life, which is scheduled to go on sale this morning. An entire section is devoted to a "Life Goes to Harvard" series of pictures and patter, the fruit of the visit of a Life photographer to Cambridge some two months...
...years, will probably continue to do so, despite literal-minded botanists who point out that no apples worth eating could have been growing in Palestine when Genesis was written. The apple tradition may have started because of the Hebrew word tapuah, which was used both generally for any fruit and specifically for apples...