Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made of the opportunities for work open to women who have others dependent on them for support, but who are prevented by domestic duties from seeking salaried positions. It is believed that important assistance has been given in the information collected and distributed concerning horticulture, silk-culture, bread making, fruit-canning, and other domestic professions. Again, it has been the aim of the Western Association to make inquiries concerning the training of women in household science. They have no desire to revolutionize society in any way, but they realize that hap-hazard ways often prevail in many households; that while...
...this country than for two forms of government. Some good reason should exist for a double school system such as the country now possesses. The reason cannot be that the public school is deficient in moral or mental training, for if a tree is to be judged by its fruit, the school system of the state suffers nothing by contrast with the system of any church...
...lecturer began by illustrating the internal mechanism of a flower. Every flower contains stamens and pistils, - the male and female organs of generation, - and an ovary or calyx in which the fruit or seed is generated. The, stamen is the pollen producing organ; this, when placed on the stigma and style of the pistil, excites the secretions of that body which make their way to the ovary to the undeveloped seeds within. The lecturer divided flowers into four groups: those self-fertilizing, and thost fertilized by wind, water, and animal life...
...most clearly in the incompetent legislative acts which we tolerate from force of long habit. Though "the returns . . . . are not encouraging to any Harvard undergraduate," yet we trust that they may at least be stimulating, and that the seed now being sown at Harvard may yet bring forth much fruit...
...reached it. A Goat hired of Puck, in anticipation of 'Beautiful Snow' literature, expired in his box of straw. As the Ibis leaned over this box, and arranged the straw so as to cover the lifeless body, he murmured, with an air that reminded one of bygone summers, of fruit and of flowers: - "Ah, well! The Board of Straw-berries him completely...