Word: fruited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been a grey sort of year, without the tension of battle or bombing to stimulate us into angry determination. I have to admit I am filled with a strong desire to leave the country for somewhere (anywhere) less worn and weary, where fruit and clothes are unlimited and people are gay. My confidence in the ultimate tightness of socialism remains unshaken-but it will take a few years of monotonous austerity...
...moon has nothing to do with the sex of a chicken that comes out of the egg. Farmers' wives may still think so, but biologists know better. It is a chromosome that does the business, whether the offspring is a fruit fly's or a man's. To predetermine sex, control the chromosome. In the Journal of Heredity, organ of the American Genetic Association, Princeton Biologist E. Newton Harvey...
...make the blowout a success, Harriman and Assistant Paul ("Piggy") Warburg had worked overtime bullying caterers and procuring gin, bourbon and some synthetic fruit juices. There was no ice or Scotch to be had. "I thought Americans always had ice and Scotch," muttered a few disgruntled Britons, but for others the plebeian spirits did well enough. A few drunks were soon reeling here & there. The dignified staggers of U.S. junior officers drew many a disparaging glance and word from moralizing chauffeurs clustered at the entrance. Only the waiters and bartenders seemed unhappy. As the afternoon wore on they grew progressively...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, the only living ex-President of the U.S. sat down to a butterless, breadless, sugarless, cream-less, potatoless, meatless dinner. (He ate cold salmon, vegetables, fruit.) Then he rose before a microphone to talk about food. At President Truman's request, Herbert Hoover had travelled 50,000 miles through 38 countries. Few men except the starving themselves knew so much about food-and famine...
Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith, travel ing with the unofficial U.S. food mission, arrived in India's malarial Karachi, within 24 hours was in a hospital with a 104° fever...