Word: fruiting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fruit crop in several of the Middle States has been damaged by cold snaps...
Prof. Asa Gray, the renowned botanist, celebrated his seventieth birthday with his mental and physical powers in full vigor. The professor, in looking over an old herbarium, found a specimen of the fruit of a plant of which nothing was known. From this fruit he founded a genus, described and classified the unseen flower, and when, many years after, the plant was rediscovered in the mountains of North Carolina, the flower was found to answer his description in almost every particular. - [Scholastic...
...faculty, disliked by undergraduates, dispised by the alumni, looked upon with aversion by the teachers of Woodward, Hughes and other preparatory schools, obnoxious to a large number of the patrons of the school, his hold on the rectorship is certainly feeble. Like Tantalus, he reached out after fruit which has constantly cluded his grasp. Like the Samian king, he left a cup untasted to pursue game he failed to secure, and has verified the proverb, 'There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.'" The return of the editors of the Academica is hailed with delight...
...youngster nodded assent. Tue ran into the house, and soon returned with the promised fruit. "What are your names?" she asked...
There he was, ready for her appearance; with a fair lunch of fruit and fish such as only he himself could have procured under the circumstances. His smile, on seeing Tue, was singularly winning...