Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association announced that a positive cure for leprosy had been effected. Hydnocarpus oil is the new remedy. For ten concentrated years scientists have been working to extract an oil from the dried fruit of the hydnocarpus tree that could safely be used in the fight against leprosy. The virtues of this oil have long been known, but its use was restricted because it blocked the veins and choked off the blood stream. Since bacillus leprae exists in the circulating blood as well as in the organs and tissues, a destructive agent that could...
...ageless plot unfolded. He laughed to see the blatantly promiscuous bachelor of forty-five summers getting engaged to a sixteen-year-old in the innocent delusion that she was unsophisticated as well as sweet. He chuckled with delight to see her mother, a movie censor, drinking strong fruit punch in the assurance that it was denatured grape-juice. When the sixteen-year-old met the bachelor's nephew, danced with him and kissed him, the man watched it and was happy. When she ran off to "park her girdle" he was made flabby with enjoyment. When a perfume...
...another sermon he described the scene which would take place when he arrived in Heaven. First he will shake hands with Jesus and thank Him for coming to the world and for calling Billy Sunday to His work. He, Billy Sunday, will then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come...
...When the weather department forecasts a sudden freeze, it does not follow that the fruit crop is ruined...
...contributes that patrician journalist, J. Alfred Spender, recently in the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 23). Last week the Westminster Gazette quietly merged with the London Daily News, a more materially potent Liberal daily, which has flourished vastly since Charles Dickens became its first editor, 82 years ago. As the fruit of last week's merger there will shortly appear The Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Survives unmerged, in London, only one Liberal paper, the morning Daily Chronicle...