Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kingly recompense. At Benares, after getting an honorary degree, His Majesty donated $10,000 to a university students' union; at Aligarh he gave $600 to his car drivers. During a few days in New Delhi, his party spent $100,000 in gift shops for gold-threaded cloth, sandalwood and ivory bric-a-brac for the wives back home...
...Priests would presumably be relieved to receive NOWILTEX clerical collars that "never need laundering," while those with large parishes would appreciate a "SACRA-KIT," the "portable sick-call set for dignity and convenience in administering at the bedside" and equipped with removable crucifix, candle holders, candles, linen cloth, holy-water bottle, and SPECIAL ABLUTION CUP ($28.75). A chrome-finish confessional counter ("numbers 1 to 9,999 turn noiselessly...
...composer must be a weaver; his creations, like cloth, have warp and woof, and some degree of lightness or heaviness, thickness or thinness, to say nothing of color. Last evening's Paine Hall concert by the Cambridge Quartet and assisting artists offered a particularly fine chance to study musical texture, especially since the musicians included some of the College's best...
Liquid Sewing Kit. Kling Kote Liquid Cloth, a clothes-mending material said to be stronger than most fabrics, has been put on the market by Chicago's Federal Products Co. The housewife simply holds the two edges of ripped cloth together, coats them with the liquid which when dry can withstand washing in water...
...faithful who worship at the 100 Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...