Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writes Sir Osbert: "The air of our ancient civilization had then a lightness about it that has now everywhere vanished, if not forever, at least for several centuries. The fruit was ripe, and we were eating...
This fall, with new courts, all but two of last year's Varsity, plus some promising new talent, Barnaby is seeing his long-range plans begin to bear fruit. Top-seeded Ted Backe is back, as are Bill Wightman, Steve Prati, and Howio Swartzman, all dependable in last spring's battles...
Outside of a choice vocabulary, a wartime course on the intricacies of slit-trench excavation bears little fruit for the veteran studying English at Harvard. College men bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...
...pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...
Despite the thousand and one delights of Cambridge night life along the Charles or in some fruit-punch laden house dance, countless Cantabridgians migrate weekend evenings to exotically named rooms in Boston hotels. Whether their purpose be more entertainment, escape from demand curves, or outright seduction does not matter; it is important, however, that they know where they are going before reserving a table...