Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion of the Committee after studying figures on costs compiled by Mr. Durant and after sounding out student opinion on the subject, that the economy which would be effected by eliminating the alternate dishes always available in the dining halls (fruit salad, second portions, club sandwiches, ice cream, etc.) would be far too small to justify the corresponding reduction in the variety of food offered to students...
...cannot be a real peace if it fails to recognize brotherhood. It cannot be a lasting peace if the fruit of it is oppression. . . . It cannot be a sound peace if small nations must live in fear of powerful neighbors. It cannot be a moral peace if freedom from invasion is sold for tribute. . . . It cannot be a righteous peace if worship of God is denied...
...disgrace the unhealthy tendencies Oscar already showed at Oxford-his sermon-inspiring crack: "Would that I could live up to my blue china;" his incense-burning and precious bric-a-brac, decadent paintings, rhapsodies in verse to Actress Lily Langtry, his declaration that "I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world." What was less frequently recalled was that he was the pet of Slade Professor John Ruskin and of the great Walter Pater, who was once so overcome by his protege's beautiful talk about the "new Hellenism" that...
Geneticists know a great deal more about heredity in fruit flies and sweet peas than about heredity in man. They cannot conscript men & women for experimental breeding in laboratories. Thus limited, they grab eagerly at what observable oddments they can-collect evidence on hereditary tongue-twisting, eye color, extra fingers, webbed fingers, hollow or "cobbler's" chest, white forelock...
...group to twiddle their thumbs in such a state of affairs is Standard Brands' board of directors, in which the Morgans swing a lot of weight. To bring yeast back Standard scientists were put to work on fruit flavors for yeast, are still at it. Vice President Daniel P. Woolley, who had freely exhibited himself with Bergen's imp on his well-tailored knee, resigned. Charlie's hour was cut to 30 minutes, shorn of his sarongster stooge Dorothy Lamour. The advertising business buzzed with Standard Brands' changes: J. Walter Thompson kept coffee, tea and yeast...