Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This Robinson Crusoe business is a lot of tommyrot," he said. "You can't live on a desert island by just plucking fruit off the trees; you've got to work like hell. You can't move anywhere without hacking your way through the bushes. To make a house, you've got to cut the wood, saw it, and plane it. One man has spent well over a year on a hut, and it is barely half finished...
...only other Springfield tally. The scoring subsided in the last period with only Benedix and Zouck scoring. late in this quarter the gymnasts made a desperate scoring offensive, but owing to a very able job by George Hanford at the nets the last minute drive bore no fruit...
...breakfast consists of about two pounds of fruit, and caffe e latte (half-&-half coffee and milk); for lunch spaghetti, rarely meat and seldom wine, a huge salad, fruit for dessert; for dinner about the same things as for lunch, and fruit and milk before retiring...
...Adam and Eve did not remain faithful to God, but broke His command by eating the forbidden fruit...
...California agriculture is a taut, highly organized, high-speed industry, requiring large numbers of skilled and semiskilled workmen-as well as untrained migrants -workmen to trim, grade and pack its produce, fill its refrigerator cars in no time, get its highly perishable fruit from tree to market without loss. (Apricots must be picked in 14 to 16 hours or the grower stands to lose his year's work.) This month the season for California's migrants begins in earnest. From now through September, maturing crops will pull men over the highways as the sun ripens successively the asparagus...