Word: fruiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...backed as they are by the author's extensive investigations, they carry a very considerable weight. Many curious habits of students and writers are detailed. When Littre, the French philosopher, felt the strain upon his system produced by continuous thought he repaired his natural forces with doses of fruit, jelly or jam, pots of which he kept conveniently at hand in his study. Gladstone eschews tobacco and only drinks light wines. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes prefers an entirely undisturbed and unclouded brain for mental work, unstimulated by anything stronger than tea or coffee, unaffected by tobacco or other drugs...
John Lovett, the only fruit vender allowed in the college buildings, came to this country twenty-nine years ago. He spent his first night in America in Cambridge and since that time has never passed one away from...
GLOBE THEATRE. - Robson and Crane in "Forbidden Fruit." Every evening...
GLOBE THEATRE. - Robson and Crane in "Forbidden Fruit." Every evening...
GLOBE THEATRE. - Robson and Crane in "Forbidden Fruit." Every evening...