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Word: buckwheat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sausages, buckwheat cakes and maple syrup were served according to ritual at a White House breakfast attended by 14 functionaries of Congress ? chaplains, librarians, doorkeepers and the like. Many were the quips, many the Presidential laughs. After the meal, the President could reflect that he had completed his quota of Congressional breakfasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Fourteen Senators and a Senator-elect-all Republicans-breakfasted at the White House. They went away digesting sausages, fried eggs, buckwheat cakes and the impression that President Coolidge wants to get the U. S. into the World Court as a crowning event of the Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Sheridan, Wyo., tariff was the topic again. Campaigner Curtis, his 68-year-old voice grown husky from daily exercise out doors, recited-"Bacon, hams, buckwheat, cattle, corn, cream, eggs, hogs, lambs, lard, milk, potatoes, rye, sheep and goats, wheat and wool"—free list of the Underwood (1913) law, the law Nominee Smith mentioned favorably in his acceptance speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...from weekend and refuses to throw in farther than second from center field. Burnham elected pitcher by rising vote. Team will draw lots for batting order tonight. Team finished practice stiff but happy. Soft ball will be in good shape for Saturday Insignia box car couchant on field of buckwheat in hoe signo vincet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princetonian Holds First Workout for Saturday's Tilt With Crimson--Optimism Reigns High Among Tiger Stars | 5/9/1928 | See Source »

Plants, Lamps.. Plants are hard working members of society. Dr. John Morris Arthur of Boyce Thompson Institute, New York tried to fool them into working all night as well as all day by turning on 48 1,000 watt incandescent lamps. He fooled clover and buckwheat all of the time; lettuce and radish 17 hours of the time; tomatoes rebelled, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Washington | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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