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Word: dahlia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light that somehow was more like silver than gold. But those rolling downs! Nowhere call there by another green quite like their shade in late May. A pastel tint, they lay, deepening the bollows to a hunter emerald. So she made garden throughout the morning, busy with tulip and dahlia tubers, hollybook plants to draw the bees, and the bitter tansy. The grocery boy came by with news of a herring run down at the Gut. He sniffed. "Seems like it's spring, I guess." "Ayea," game her noncommittal assent from, the kitchen door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before he became Secretary of the Interior. He bred it at his home in Winnetka, Ill., named it "Anna W. Ickes" for his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trapaeolum majus Burpeeii | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Inulin is a carbohydrate which diabetics may eat. It occurs in artichokes, dahlia bulbs, elecampanes. But it is far less plentiful in foodstuffs than the appetizing starch of potatoes. If potatoes only contained inulin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Potatoes for Diabetics | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

Irked was dahlia-growing Public Works Administrator Ickes last week when ten unions proposed that the American Federation of Labor ask the President to "remove those officials whose laxity and inefficiency" was delaying the $3,300,000,000 Federal building program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Ickes to Labor | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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