Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long, inch-wide strip of hide from a freshly killed rhinoceros. Let the strip age a little and toughen. Then have one of your black boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
...benches. The words, "In appreciation of our Princeton football scrubs--past, present, and future" graven on the walls of the field house near the dressing room of the scrubs justly recognizes the men who day by day have given their time and taken the knocks to put the winning polish on the first eleven. Where the roaring plaudits of loyal backers comes to university athletics, gratitude is not unfitting to the scrubs whose fate has been to shimmer as shadows on the dim edge of the orange spotlight...
...Marshal Pilsudski, but constantly menaced and savagely attacked in Parliament by ever-changing permutations and combination of Poland's 50 active political parties and organizations. Assuming that M. Bartel manages to get his resignation accepted, after all, likely successors to the Prime Ministry include M. Stanislaw Patek, now Polish Minister at Moscow, Minister of Education Kazimierz Switalski, and Director Goretzki of the Agricultural Bank...
...makes it his business to examine samples of ergot from all countries is Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, 74, professor of botany, physiology and materia medica at Columbia University since 1888. The condition of Spanish and Portuguese ergot Dr. Rusby has usually found good. The usual condition of Polish and Russian ergot has horrified him. He has found it mixed with black-eyed worms and gray lice. Samples were consistently old and mouldy. Extracts often killed experimental animals...
...last year good Dr. Rusby tried to raise a scandal. It spread subtly to women and has scared them. Doctors, however, paid no attention to his exclamations. They knew that manufacturing druggists who use dirty Polish and Russian ergot cleanse and refine it thoroughly when preparing ergot extracts, that the extracts sold by reputable pharmaceutical houses satisfy the high U. S. Pharmacopœia standards for the drug. In addition to ignoring Dr. Rusby's scandal, they were vexed to learn that his good friend, Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan importer, held a corner on all the Rusby-approved Spanish...