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Cut a 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Kiboko | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Barthelmess reveals his usual adeptness at being able to throw off the rhinoceros skin of gangster vice, and Miss Compson becomes a good girl after many revelations of body lines and wetting of luxurious lashes. Any Senior will forget his imminent divisional.

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: TALKIES MAKE DEBUT AT UNIVERSITY | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

An unusual exhibit is on display in the entrance hall of the Museum. This is a fossilized slab of rock from Agate Springs, Nebraska, in which are located the bones of a rhinoceros, so thickly scattered as to make an almost solid pavement. This slab has been prepared in such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOSSIL EXHIBITION WILL OPEN TODAY | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews. The discoveries of this year include an extraordinarily large rhinoceros-like animal and the lower jaw of a mastodon having large lower tusks, flattened so that they have a shovel effect and measure thirteen inches across.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Needy American Museum | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Clearly Edward of Wales must be prepared to sit in informal judgment upon the great, sporting issue of Rhinocerophobes v. Rhinocerophiles. It was unthinkable that he himself should shoot a rhinoceros out of season.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rhinoceroses | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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