Word: prunes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poet Vachel Lindsay, who has hymned many cities, played up the prosy aspect of "this Buffalo, this recreant town," to get a contrast for the "deathless glory" of nearby Niagara Falls. He reported "sharps and lawyers, prune and tame; Jew pioneers in Buffalo"; and journalists "sick...
...turned his back upon the girl and went to California, where he hired himself out to farmers until able to acquire land of his own at Santa Rosa. In 1881, his small nursery business leapt to great proportions when a banker asked, in the spring, to have 20,000 prune trees for fall planting. Young Burbank bought almond seeds, sprouted them, grafted prune buds to the sprouts and delivered 20,000 prune shoots for the banker's fall planting - thus fulfilling an unprecedented order that other gardeners of the day would have called impossible...
...watched his Finance Minister, M. Doumer, take this rattlebrained bill to the Senate. Admittedly it was almost worthless. M. Doumer's experts opined that it might produce 2½ billion francs of added revenue, whereas at least 5 billions are necessary. The Senate Finance Committee's first act was to prune away some of its notorious "spoof" clauses (TIME, Feb. 15), mere legislative "nifties"?? not worthy of the Senators' laughter. The general impression was that the bill could scarcely be worse. But it was at least a bill! It was, in fact, a great triumph for M. Briand...
...Maid Raisin Growers Association California Fruit Growers' Exchange California Prune and Apricot Growers Portland Cement Association Dairymen's League Cooperative Association Florida Citrus Exchange...
...aptly expresses it, a spirit of inquisitiveness revived. His plan to raise the requirements for an A.B. degree to four Bs in a total of sixteen courses that a man must pass, with no more than two Ds, and an allowance for failure of one whole course, undoubtedly would prune effectually if not entirely remove the "deadwood". But it is very doubtful whether the mental growth of the remainder would be permanently stimulated. Men would have to get better marks to stay in college, but that would not necessarily make of them better scholars in the true sense...