Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbus days. Some of Mr. Brewer's evidence: 1) Indian legends of huge serpents appearing on Lake Ontario. (Norse war galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization from the Great Lakes and Mississippi Basin in the 12th Century. (The indomitable Norse first began coming to America in the 11th Century.) 4) Presence in the Mound-builder country of earthworks identical with mounds...
...rustled and torches veered. A chief had been murdered; now the tribe, protected by strong medicine against bad luck, would move through the jungle to kill his killers. They would move safely in a line through the jungle; no spear could wound, no knife had power to part their skin, so potent was the medicine the witch-man made for them in the shaking torchlight. He would kill the woman who writhed on the hide; he would sprinkle her blood on the heads of the warriors to a noise of drums. Drums-but was it drums that beat among...
Machine builders have always wanted a steel that had a soft core with a hard surface or "skin." Such a steel would furnish an enduring wearing surface and yet be easy to shape. It would be invaluable to makers of motor cars, typewriters, adding, sewing, knitting machines-wherever wearing parts are needed. Metallurgists have produced soft, shapable steels. They have devised hard steels which were expensive to "work." But not till last week did any one announce a steel with all the desiderata of the machine builder...
...Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over the carcass of a boa constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain a college tradition. Goggly-eyed, some watched their cook strip the skin from five rattlesnakes, gut them, parboil the sleek joints. The 20 freshmen ate, wearing the green grin of bravado...
...flowered with embroidery. Surplice, which was at first an undershirt to keep the cold-blooded monks and abbots warm and, to be proper, must still be worn with the alb. It has long, loose, open sleeves, a gathered yolk at the neck, and drops to the knees like the skin of a ribless umbrella. Stole. A narrow strip of embroidered work nine or ten feet long and about three inches wide. A stole supposedly tallies with its alb in design and coloring. The Bishop of London wears his stole between his alb and his tunicle. The spangles across his chest...