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Word: parsnips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month in Manhattan, parsnip-nosed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman launched in the U. S. the latest campaign of his Oxford Groupers-Moral Re-Armament (TIME, May 22). Last week Dr. Buchman sought to sell MRA to the nation's Capital. To the Washington Star he sounded off in the copy writers' slogans which, over a period of years, he has diligently worked up. Sample: "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA in Washington | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island the sites were covered with stinging nettles and wild parsnip; over burial sites elderberries were common. One site at Uyak Ray was covered every year with handsome forget-me-nots, the only ones found in the region. Monkshood and fireweed were other prominent indicators of sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Detective Hrdlicka | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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