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...When ointment containing male sex hormones is rubbed into the comb of a capon, the listless, bedraggled cock gradually turns into a lusty, strutting rooster. Reason; the hormones are absorbed into his bloodstream. When Dr. George L. Foss of the Royal Infirmary at Bristol, England learned that this direct application of hormones to a capon's comb is 200 times more effective than injections, he decided last summer to try it on impotent...
...Hereford breeders. President Mitchell was chiefly concerned about tariffs and quotas, for particularly painful to cattlemen are Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade pacts, which tend to lower the fences against foreign meat. Cried President Mitchell: "South America is the only fly in the cowman's ointment. Otherwise he is riding high and handsome. This Argentine business is Secretary Hull's idea to promote peace and world markets. He is a high-class gentleman but he is making a mistake...
...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...
Most of us like the balm of a little sentiment scattered sweetly here and there throughout the length of a serious movie, a kind of salve to smooth the rough edges of the plot; but literally to take a bath in the ointment is neither pleasant nor logical. And such was "To Mary With Love." It was a bathtub of sentiment, and it was neither pleasant nor logical...
...those courses which use section men, there is a great variety in the systems of determining grades. But this variety, far from being the spice of life, is rather the fly in the undergraduate's ointment. Some courses have schemes which insure justice and impartiality. Others, however, make of each section man an arbitrary despot. The natural variation in the rigor of these lieutenants is translated into a vast difference among the standards obtaining within a single course. Distinctions among students of the same merit necessarily follow...