Word: turnip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fond and normal though he is as a grandfather, strange as the ways of the Kookaburra* are the financial maneuvers of Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales, eccentric Laborite. Weeks ago he proposed to fatten the flabby treasury of his province by issuing "turnip money," i.e. paper money secured not by gold, but by the natural wealth of the country, turnips, mutton, wheat, etc. (TIME, Feb. 23). Dissuaded from this he next proposed that Australia should insist that Great Britain give her as favorable terms of debt settlement as Great Britain had received from the U. S. Last...
...turnip-grower could issue money he might say: "Here is a piece of paper good for one turnip. I promise to keep a turnip in my cellar for each piece of paper I issue, or if not a turnip then an onion or some other vegetable equally good...
...What turnip-growers cannot do with turnips, Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales proposed last week to do with what he called "the wealth which Australia can produce in her primary and secondary industries...
...Soviet press that a "Capitalistic invasion" of Russia may come at any hour, looks to the Commissar of War as its prospective savior, cheers him wildly when he rides out hard-eyed and unsmiling, his breast bedight with three Soviet medals, his bul let head surmounted by the turnip-shaped Red Army helmet...
...York Academy of Medicine. Oldest specimen is a manuscript, written about 870 A.D., of Apicius De re Coquinaria (On Cookery), which collates some of the ancient recipes the Romans considered choice. Ancient cookery differed little from modern. Roast pork and apples was a Roman, dish, also duck and turnip. The Romans had no sugar, used honey. Honey and cheese made a delicate dish. Pepper was new to them. They used it profusely. Cinnamon they knew but used it at burials, not in the kitchen. When Dr. Wilson could not understand a recipe, she prepared the dish in her own kitchen...