Word: sculped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in the patch, the slaughter begins. A sharp blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
Hyoi, the hross, explained the neat divisions of labor in Martian life. The seallike hrossa did the fishing and wrote the poetry. The séroni, pretty much like men except that they were covered with feathers, took care of philosophy and science. The froglike pfifltriggi handled building and sculp ture. The eldila (unfortunately invisible to the sinful eye of hmãn) represented the spirit world and carried out the orders of Oyarsa, God of Mars...
...teaching, Painter Woodruff holds to no high-brow theories about Negro art. He believes that the Negro should not hide his race ("to let the world know he can paint and sculp as well as act, sing and write") but that, as an American, he should draw his inspiration from the whole pattern of U.S. life. "We are interested," says he, "in expressing the South as a field, as a territory, its peculiar run-down landscape, its social and economic problems, the Negro people...