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Word: turnip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupational hazards of our trade, and we expect them. The head of our Boston office, however, seems to have more than his share of them. Recently, in the course of a week's work, he submitted to a sampling of twelve-year-old cheese, tasted a "health" beverage (turnip juice, elderberries and soybeans) brought in by an elderly artist, promised to try a new kind of bread made from orange peelings by a Russian inventor. Says he: "There is a distinct gastronomic hazard in this work. But I know of no other job in which I can catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...derived from the Italian word oca (goose), but some authorities trace it to the Italian occare, meaning to harrow. The ancient Chinese, Aztecs and Incas all played a similar instrument. Its introduction to Western civilization dates from the late 19th Century, when an Italian named Donati made a turnip-shaped flute of baked clay with eight finger holes. He subsequently killed himself by falling off a balcony. Perfected by a German wagon maker named Heinrich Fiehn, Donati's invention became the rage of Vienna in the '90s. The very finest ocarinas were manufactured from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Mud to Melody | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...House Ways & Means Committee concentrated last week on ways & means to get more blood out of the taxpayer-turnip. They sat deaf as beetles to dire warnings of moral disaster from the eight "community property" States*. The eight States had argued (getting a little blue in the face) that a change in the tax laws to require joint income-tax returns would cause more divorces and force men & women to live in sin. But committee members, hard-pressed by the revenue-hungry Treasury, were concerned more with cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men at Work | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...take men's thoughts away from grief nor ugly enough to scare the stricken children." Later Madame Berthelot worked in the passport bureau. There she owed her promotion from a hard to an easy job to her second cousin by marriage, a petty official called The Navet (Turnip). He got her promoted by "culling evidence of a particularly rare pastime to which one of his chiefs was addicted." The chief frequented "a unique establishment ... the only house of ill-fame in the world whose 'girls' were all more than seventy years old." ^ Therese, the 250-lb. cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamins & Spinach | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...Many a U.S. citizen fears the influence of British aristocracy, of British stuffiness in U.S. life, as many a Briton hates to think of U.S. movies, U.S. ways, U.S. "vulgarity" influencing British culture. Of the two, the American is the touchier. If some excitable Colonel Blimp had thrown a turnip at Ambassador Winant, the U.S. would have hit the international ceiling. Last week Britons were politely, politicly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: International Incident | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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