Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considered irrefutable. President Cosgrave spoke of the agreement as marking "a turning point in Irish history" and likely to strengthen the Free State's unstable credit. Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, went so far as to propose that the Ulster border police be disbanded as a definite fruition of the present accord...
...greatest super-power projects in the country is that undertaken by the Electric Bond & Share Co., now approaching fruition. The properties being assembled for this giant merger include parts of the Electric Power & Light Co., American Power & Light, National Power & Light, Southeastern Power & Light, American Gas & Electric, Carolina Power & Light, Lehigh Power Securities, and Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern. All these are either controlled or managed by the Electric Bond & Share Co. or allied interests...
...tempted to ask the same question, with some-what less of pathos and something more of irony: "Twenty months ago a struggle for the Presidency commenced. But where are the men, the issues, of that yesteryear? Then was the springtime of political hope. Now is the autumn of political fruition. But where are the snows whence sprang this herbage...
...barred every effort. Other universities have offered him everything that he wanted in the way of equipment if he would only come to them. He refused, as you said in your editorial, out of sheer loyalty to Harvard, hoping against hope that he might be enabled to bring to fruition at Harvard the work which he had developed there from small beginnings...
...Name in which we can claim salvation-the name of Jesus Christ." This special mission was entrusted to the Dominicans (newly founded at that time) by an apostolic letter to Blessed John Vercelli. Organized in Portugal, the Holy Name Society spread through Europe and eventually came to its fullest fruition in the U. S. Originally, it was, in part, regarded as reparation for the "blasphemous Albigensian heresies." Purpose. The Society lays peculiar emphasis on purity of speech. But this ideal is extended to include purity of thought and life. "It gives its members," said a Bishop, "just that amount...