Word: plum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business. He performed millions of experiments in plant-breeding, producing - besides thousands of poor variations, fruitless hybrids, unfixed types and failures - about 150 "creations", of which the most celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...
Former Chancellor Wirth of Germany was listed as having obtained the most valuable plum: immense timber concessions in the Volga forests. There followed as a close second the extensive rights for exploiting Russian manganese deposits obtained by the Harriman interests...
...Oven-Baked Beans with Pork and Tomato Sauce, Oven-Baked Beans without Tomato Sauce, with Pork (Boston Style), OvenBaked Beans in Tomato Sause without Meat (Vegetarian), Oven-Baked Red Kidney Beans, Cream of Tomato Soup, Cream of Green Pea Soup, Cream of Celery Soup, Mince Meat, Plum Pudding, Fig Pudding, Peanut Butter, Cooked Spaghetti, Cherry Preserves, Red Raspberry Preserves, Peach Preserves, Damson Plum Preserves, Strawberry Preserves, Pineapple Preserves, Black Raspberry Preserves, Blackberry Preserves, Crab Apple Jelly, Currant Jelly, Grape Jelly, Quince Jelly, Apple Butter, Preserved Sweet Gherkins, Preserved Sweet Midget Gherkins, Preserved Sweet Mixd Pickles, Sour Spiced Gherkins, Sour Midget...
...Herr Koch as an "arch-unionist" who would take away the "sectional rights" appertaining to the various states of the German Republic. Eventually they forced him to allow another member of his party, Herr Kuelz, to receive the Interior portfolio, which Herr Koch had formerly demanded as his personal "plum" for supporting Dr. Luther. It was Herr Koch who failed in the most promising recent attempt at a "Big Coalition" (TIME...
...Leacock is right in his analysis of carses, at least in part. America is fast ceasing to be the land of "great open spaces" where untutored native talent could always extract a fair sized plum from natural wealth which only waited to be plucked. The United States is rapidly approaching the crowded condition of European countries where intensive competition in every scheme of activity is naturally reflected in intensive training for leadership...