Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shack in the oil field area houses the fruition of the financier's plot, the murder of the innocent by rebel-general De Castro (Felix Krembs). "President Parkman's son killed," shriek press headlines, cinema reels, radio announcers. The cinema is interpolated into the second act, revealing the wheels of propaganda at work, affording respite to taut nerves in the audience. Martin Henderson is filmed "Enlisting with Uncle Sam at a dollar a year." In the end, young Parkman turns up, only wounded. The band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" to a happy curtain...
...foot by several graduates, to give money to the University for the purchase. It is for that, and that reason only, that the house has not yet been sold. It is inconceivable that a plan which has so many delightful angles will not be carried to its fruition...
...with his full, straight lips, and the direct expression in his eyes, the eloquent sage, the national oracle, who concerns the undergraduate to come. The forces that made him this were perhaps the same that aided him throughout his whole career, but it was only in that rare fruition of life which it is given to so few men to enjoy that Eliot could round his philosophy as completely as he rounded his life...
...assembled here for the fourth Vimy dinner at Government House. Vimy was an action successful in its conception, successful because it was brought to fruition by a generous discipline. It was a discipline that was understood, brought to a climax by a united Canadian corps, a corps whose merits and qualities I am at a loss to express in words. It is expressed best in the words of Pope's 'Essay on Man,' when he said...
...plant-breeder's best fruits are his last. Many of the Burbank experiments - on nuts, forest trees, fruits, flowers - were incomplete at his death. Only last year he announced that he expected the decade that lay before him to be his most valuable to society - the fruition of work begun 10 and 15 years ago. It is 21 years ago that the Carnegie Institution awarded him $10,000 a year for ten years to carry on his work; 14 years since the Government turned over to him 7,680 acres of land. During his last illness (heart weakness induced...