Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type of lightning recorder. Called a "fulchronograph," it gives a complete picture of a lightning stroke's intensity, from start to finish. Essential feature is a wheel with 400 iron fins on its rim, revolving at 3,400 r.p.m. A lightning arrester no bigger than a quart-size fruit jar receives the bolt, discharges it harmlessly through its coils. In these coils the lightning sets up a varying magnetic field in which the fulchronograph wheel spins. Each iron fin of the fulchronograph is magnetized according to the intensity of the field at the moment it passes through...
...current between Billings and Glendive flows at 5 m.p.h. in some places, 2 m.p.h. in others. But Auctioneer Giles had floated only two miles out of the 288 because it was too difficult to keep his body stiff. He was fed sugar cubes, fruit juices and lettuce sandwiches every four hours, had managed to steer clear of hazards until he reached Buffalo Rapids, 50 miles from home, where he was catapulted into the air, bounced off rocks and tree stumps and landed in a terrifying whirlpool. But as he crawled out at Glendive he had crawled into the record books...
...industry's best sales plug in recent years has been the claim that pickles contain vitamins, particularly Vitamin C (which prevents scurvy), fill a dietary need for people who do not eat enough fresh vegetables and fruit...
...bright yellow of the banana and the almost metaphysical taste or smell it imparts to the water in its vicinity lures the banana fish, which strikes with lightning rapidity. As the fish flashes at the submerged half of the banana, the fisherman instantly pulls the fruit from the water. Now comes the time when the sportsman must outsmart this denizen...
...mush) without which life for an Italian peasant is not worth living. Polenta-less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...