Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweet are the uses of adversity"; but the uses of knowledge, though more difficult of fruition, are sweeter. It is a sad truth that for many men a college degree means no more than a certificate of work gone through with-a certain number of years spent in such and such a way. "Grind" as he will, the student who, parrot-like, fills his blue-books full of his professor's own phrases, is, in the final analsis, little more benefited than the one who attends classes with the same sang-forld with which he pays the Bursar...
...record of achievement can easily prove, are sufficiently perfected for all practical purposes. Aviation is known to all and the science of meteorology has come to be her handmaid. The offices of designers and inventors are full of future plans on gigantic scales which will come naturally to fruition as soon as a genuine primary movement is evinced...