Word: ointments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearty agreement that intellectual freedom is, or should be, the greatest blessing of a university. To hear these ancient foes singing a harmonious duct of such social significance is comforting today when their football rivalry is waxing warm. But there is more than one fly in the ointment. John and the Bulldog may nod solemnly together over such a book as mill's "On Liberty," but we were afraid they would get into the very devil of a fight over Emily Post's "Etiquette." It seems that as regards a man named Browder, John and the Bulldog just...
...like the assistant profs' sweet salving ointment...
Unlike most travel books this one really travels, loiters nowhere, observes brightly on the fly, dwells most approvingly on the efforts of Siam's progressive Government to turn that still independent country into a democracy despite Japanese example and proximity. Fly in the ointment: the Government's mechanization program is causing serious technological unemployment among elephants...
Federal Trade Commission's stipulation-of-the-week: "Keystone Laboratories, Inc., 491 South Third St., Memphis, trading as Memphis Mail Order House, Curio Products Company and White Line, will discontinue representing that Poreen Ointment, La Jac Lovin' Pink Cream for Dark Skins or La Jac Orange Beauty Glow Cream are skin foods or skin whiteners; that other of its products eliminate wrinkles; that La Jac Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone...
...mixed testosterone propionate (synthetic male hormone) into a bland ointment, gave two patients tubes of the ointment, asked them to squeeze out an inch (containing about 20 milligrams of hormone) and massage it into their thighs and abdomens every night. Within a month the flabby men grew hairier, more muscular, even "pugnacious." When they used the cream faithfully they were able to practice normal sexual relations. A third patient, a boy of 18 whose voice had not yet changed, rubbed the ointment into the skin over his Adam's apple twice daily for a month until "his voice became...