Word: castor
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...which the late King Nadir Khan of Afghanistan boiled an opposing general and all his staff (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929) was castor oil, a primitive product of the country. Mineral oil is too rare in Afghanistan to be used as an ointment of royal justice. Last week in Berlin, how ever, handsome Foreign Minister Faiz Mohammed Khan signed an agreement which may eventually make pastoral, wild Afghanistan one of the major oil producing regions of the East. To Inland Exploration Co., controlled by Seaboard Oil of Delaware, Faiz granted exploration rights for 75 years to every foot of Afghanistan...
...which the skier flashes past and is gone. Not only did Cameraman Schneeberger get some of the world's best pictures of skiing, but he managed to frame them in the rugged beauty of the high Alps. Many an Alpine skier will recognize the peaks and slopes of Castor and Pollux. Good shots: Guzzi somersaulting over a fence; Guzzi and Walter treading a ski dance; the angry village policeman biting the crust while his skis and boots run on without...
...event was the Vanderbilt Cup race-ten laps over 28 miles of Long Island's tortuous dirt roads. Last week at Westbury, L. I., the Vanderbilt Cup race was revived, with a new prize, a new course and 45 bright little racers that smelled like castor oil and sounded like machine guns...
...obviously a cultivated woman beneath her dowdy exterior, launched a series of domestic reforms that saved the harassed Ward family. She cleaned out the basement and sold the unused furniture for $39. She found a cheaper way of buying coal. She persuaded little Wallie Ward to take his castor oil. (She put it in front of him, told him how much his mother loved him, and walked away. When she came back, he had taken it.) She jolted dreamy Professor Paul Ward out of his many irresponsibilities, until he soon became dean of his department. She got the Ward...
...squatting position. She is supported in this position by three women. . . . Birth apparently is not a very painful matter judging from the expression of this woman as I watched her for some time. . . . She was in labor for about twelve hours only. Except for the administration of some castor oil and i c.c. of pituitrin, my activities, as obstetrician, consisted, as the word implies, in standing-by. The child was born ten minutes after the pituitrin was given, and ten minutes later, all in the tent-eleven women, the patient, and the writer-enjoyed cigarets...