Word: orangewood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soap sculpture is popular because it is easy and cheap (only requisites: a bar of soap, a kitchen paring knife, an orangewood stick, a steady hand). Many a serious sculptor carves his small-scale models in soap, and its alabastery translucence makes it useful for window display and advertising photographs. One drawback: its fragility. Procter & Gamble sends the winning pieces on a year's tour of schools, stores and clubs. Before the tour's end, half the pieces are broken. Too fragile even to set out on this year's tour is a prizewinning cow. She lost...
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