Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fruit on the shaded side of a tree has less vitamin C than that on the sunny side...
These were not empty words, pronounced out of foggy good will by mere do-gooders. This program was the fruit of a series of four hard-working meetings, soberly and thoughtfully attended to draw up a charter for racial cooperation. The men and women who attended them make up a roster of first-rate Southern leaders. Among them: Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, Field Secretary, Commission on Interracial Cooperation; President Rufus E. Clement, Atlanta University; President Mordecai Johnson, Howard University; Editor Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution; Bishop Arthur J. Moore, Atlanta; President Frederick D. Patterson, Tuskegee Institute...
...gasped your correspondents, turning crimson at the thought of the forbidden fruit...
...students of Nobel Prize Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech, the Lindegrens had long crossbred fruit flies, which breed a new generation every three weeks. Yeast can produce a new generation in as little as 20 minutes. Yeast cells, usually having no sex, reproduce simply by splitting in two. Under certain conditions yeast develops sexual characteristics and, like other plants, reproduces by means of spores. The Lindegrens cultivated yeast with spores, opened the spore sacs and cross-fertilized them, in this way bred thousands of new varieties of yeast. Finally, they got some to the king's taste...
...trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years ago he began a mysterious work- An Oral History of Our Time - a chronicle composed entirely of chance conversations on the Bowery and elsewhere. He has been working-on it ever since. The unfinished manuscript (the fruit of more than 20,000 conversations) contains 9,000,000 words in longhand, is eleven times wordier than the Bible. So far no publisher has nibbled...