Word: fruitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand. The storm was then being brewed by the men who founded the Crimson Key. They were frustrated, for they wanted to be Big Men on the Campus. Their aim was creation of an environment which would make possible fulfillment of that ambition. We prevented the immediate fruition of their plans at that time, and you are gallantly striving to do the same today...
...female entourage challenges and soon ridicules the pledge. Upon this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after the women have been called home. "You, that way; we, this...
Spring is not a good in itself, but it is supposed to lead to something good. Classes and study cards lead to graduation, perhaps with honors; plans and dreams to fruition; love to all sorts of complications. Spring is a means, a road, an open door, etc., or at least used...
...take much effort to imagine the Michigan team as the fruition of Art Kapey's plans here. Everything was there: the casual huddle, the initial lopsided formation, the jumping backfield shift...
Eisenhower said he regretted leaving Columbia when activities he directed "are just reaching fruition." As soon as he completes his "duty as a soldier," he said, he wants to get back to the kind of administrative work he has been doing at Columbia...