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...will go to waste. Mohammed Bah Abba, a local teacher, has developed an ingenious solution: the Pot-in-Pot Preservation Cooling System. A small earthenware pot is placed inside a larger one, and the space between the two is filled with moist sand. The inner pot is filled with fruit, vegetables or soft drinks; a wet cloth covers the whole thing. As water in the sand evaporates through the surface of the outer pot, it carries heat, drawing it away from the inner core. Eggplants stay fresh for 27 days, instead of the usual three. Tomatoes and peppers last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions: Best Of The Rest | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...Winners ANNE ROBINSON Weakest Link host is best-paid person on British TV. For our American readers, that's like being the highest earner on, say, Michigan TV WARREN BUFFET American billionaire buys Fruit of the Loom; during due diligence finds out the giant grape, banana and apple costumes not part of deal PINK FLOYD '70s rockers say pressing new CD will damage environment so they'll plant a forest. We've thought of another solution: no new CD Losers MICHAEL JACKSON Stores cancel 50% of orders for Jacko's $30 million album Invincible. Rejected titles: Indigestible, Unrecognizable, Inflammable MANOLO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 11/11/2001 | See Source »

...York is the greatest city in the world. Where are you from again, Iowa or something?” he asked his roommate, long-suffering Michigan resident and Tigers aficionado David B. Stevens ‘03. Stevens later filled Johnson’s backpack with rotting fruit...Fairweather fan Antonia C. Kandu ‘02 still hasn’t noticed that the Series is over. “Mmm, Derek, baby,” she moaned, staring at her life-size Derek Jeter poster. “You can squat behind my plate anytime...

Author: By Gossip Guy, | Title: Gossip Guy! | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

Club officials said the evening event, where students chatted and nibbled on crackers, fruit and peanuts, did not feel too different than in past years, despite the open punch...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Club Punch Opens For First Time | 11/7/2001 | See Source »

...Mather 317 this year. Unlike “Christmas in July,” “Halloween in early October” was not a welcomed event because its mascot happened to be a furry, flying rodent. Yes, a bat, not the baseball kind, but the fruit-eating, blood-sucking, flying mammal from Transylvania. A visit from this tiny animal has left 317 with a new appreciation for rustling noises, glue paper, screens and rabies shots...

Author: By J.s. Zdeb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To the Batcave: Flying Rat in Mather 317 | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

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