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Word: kohlrabi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grass skirt was driving a span of oxen at Brissac near Tours last week. In the same held another team pulled a heavy plow under the vicious prodding of a gold-laced Spanish matador. Out in the same farm's kitchen garden a Chinese mandarin was watering the kohlrabi. In the stable reporters found a sullen Frenchman in the bonnet and kilts of a Gordon Highlander forking manure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Barlow's Legacies | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...Newark this spring John Kochorowsky kept telling his neighbors what a fine garden of onions and kohlrabi he was going to have. But something went wrong. Nothing came up. John Kochorowsky's garden became a great neighborhood joke. Meantime the garden next door flourished beautifully, became as famed for fertility as John Kochorowsky's was for sterility. One day last week John Kochorowsky gazed over the fence brooding long and darkly. Then he went down into his cellar, hanged himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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