Word: grape
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept himself alive as a dishwasher, engine cleaner, grape picker, ranch hand and art photographer-and studied painting at night. "I have done nearly everything except commercial art," he recalls, "but it is not true when they say I worked as a butler...
...whatever denominational name Christians call themselves, whether they receive the Sacrament standing or kneeling at an altar rail or in their pews, whether they drink wine in a chalice, or grape juice in a paper cup, or drink nothing at all, Christians all over the world next Sunday will be performing the supreme Christian rite-the Holy Communion...
Instead of spending a tin-horn-paper-hat New Year's Eve, delegates held a midnight communion service-perhaps the largest in Methodist history-at which 10,900 tiny paper cups of grape juice and pieces of bread were distributed. Later boys & girls signed "Dedication Cards," on which they could check off any number of twelve "decisions for Christ" printed on the back. Sample: "I will choose my lifework, not for personal profit, but in accordance with . . . God's will...
This low finance was as high as Trader got, but chimpanzees can master a subtler money economy. At Yale's Laboratories of Primate Biology, Dr. John Wolfe confronted six young and impressionable chimpanzees with a "chimp-o-mat," a slot machine which passed out a grape when fed a white poker chip. The chimps learned quickly how to operate the contraption. They also learned that poker chips were things of value, to be cherished and scuffled...
Then Dr. Wolfe showed his chimps the seamy side of money: work. He put in their quarters a "work-machine" with a heavy handle. When a chimp hoisted the handle, he got a poker chip (convertible into one grape). Some of the chimps went into a frenzy of work and accumulation, heaping up capital and guarding it savagely. One earned 185 power-chip coins in a single ten-minute session...