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...hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish thyme, sweet marjoram; seasonings from Amberna and the Isles of Spice; carloads of ox-tails from the stockyards of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Soup | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Ones of Earth | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...these, 200 have returned to Canada and 175 have died. Police or civil courts are considered superfluous by the Mennonites who deal with an offender simply by deciding at a religious mass meeting to boycott any brother who has seriously transgressed. Since the colony is 43 miles by ox cart from the nearest town, Puerto Casado, Paraguay, such boycotting is a most effective weapon of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Schwartzenstruber on Schultzen | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Bethlehem was crowded. Joseph could find no room at the inn, or any decent lodging. So humbly in a stable, warmed by the breath of kine, the Babe was born, Mary wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him wailing in a manger, between an ox and an ass; and the animals fell to their knees before the Babe.−(St. Luke II, 1:7; and tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1932nd Anniversary | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Ox MY WAY-Art Young-Liveright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: C'Toonist | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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