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...alarm clock for a Norfolk Island milch-goat. A year later the good creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skipper's Daughter | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Sago, Tapioca, Casava. Increases asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Tariff-Makers | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Annis horseradish Minute tapioca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Out of the Oven | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Sanka coffee* Pearl tapioca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Out of the Oven | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Daniel French did make a statue, at 23, that is as well known, perhaps, as any U. S. work in clay, "The Minute Man of Concord." The fact that the Minute Man in question was famed more by his appearance on thousands of boxes of Minute Tapioca than by universal acclaim does not alter the fact that he is a famed minute man and statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Greatest | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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