Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxonomic" researches I presume "Sexologist" Alfred C. Kinsey [TIME, March 1] spent most of his time "looking (a fruit fly) squarely in the eye, firing questions at him at maximum speed," and getting excited about his answers...
...York, and 15-year-old Andrew Kende of Evanston, Ill. As soon as she heard the news, Barbara, flushed and fluttery, rushed to a phone to tell her father. A quiet girl with shoulder-long hair, she spends her time at home studying the nonhereditary mutations of the fruit fly. Her father, a school principal in New York City, had already heard the news on the radio. Cried he into the phone: "Half the neighborhood's drunk already...
...March 1780, small, shy James Madison Jr. rode from Virginia to Philadelphia in a two-wheeled chaise to take his seat in the Continental Congress. In the next six months he ran up a boardinghouse bill of $21,373.66, spent $2,459 for liquor, sugar, and fruit and gave his barber $1,020. Madison was neither rich nor extravagant. Like others of his poor but patriotic colleagues, he hardly knew where his next bale of inflationary paper money was coming from. In terms of hard coin, figures Biographer Irving Brant, Madison was living at the modest rate...
...Jobbing. Robinson's adolescent dream was to go to college, but his father spiked that because the oldest Robinson boy, Dean, had become a morphine addict after getting his M.D.; if that was the fruit of college learning, Edwin might better stay at home. Lonely and miserable, young Robinson lolled around the town, doing odd jobs and writing verses...
...French machines, textiles and fertilizers might move southward again, in exchange for Spanish pyrites, copper and citrus fruit. Reflected the Gaullist France Libre: "Let's never play Don Quixote again. . . . By this silly closing of the frontier, we have lost an important market. . . . Others, more realistically minded than we, have taken our place. . . . Now we will have to reconquer the place we once held in Spain's foreign trade...