Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the ban which big bad Boston police have put on Esquire, a copy of that forbidden fruit mysteriously found its way into the Crimson office. More than that, it was coveted and scoured like a rare manuscript, and there was uncovered one article which all right-minded Harvard men should feel proud to read...
...injured by forceps, and still bears a scar on his forehead. He had to crawl on all fours till he was five, but was robust and mischievous. One day, to his mother's amazement, little Earl's flailing arms stole some apples from a fruit stand. "It was the first time that my hand had ever done my bidding," he said. "My stolen apples gave me the clue, not followed up for years, that the secret of control for the muscularly handicapped lies in concentration on a purpose...
...Only for Bulgaria." At week's end, the worried conferences which Bogdan Filoff had had with his King and his Cabinet bore fruit. He went to Russe, on the Danube, just opposite the spot where the Germans were supposed to be most heavily concentrated. There he made a speech in which he voiced the sentiments of Boris...
...capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships of his United Fruit Co. to & from the ports of many a banana republic...
Subsequent speakers in the forum series will be: Feb. 19, Professor Frank R. Scott, McGill University, "Canada. An American Nation"; and March 12, William K. Jackson, vice-president of the United Fruit Company. "The Caribbean. Its Peoples and its Problems...