Word: tallow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunlight Soap, made from vegetable oils and superior to the tallow soaps then (1885) generally in use, was almost immediately successful, became inside of three years the largest selling soap in the United Kingdom. In 1887 Soapman Lever reclaimed a large area of swampy land along the Mersey River and built Port Sunlight, perhaps the earliest instance of the paternal industrialism it represents...
Author Stribling, sometimes called the Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...
Deadshots who annually arrive at Bisley station with their gun cases, their wind gauges, their range finders, telescopes and tallow candles (for blackening front sights) never notice Bisley village, never notice Bisley church, and they have positively ignored Dr. John Gwyon, rector of Bisley Church for 33 years...
Skylights, matches and tallow candles...
...first experiments were not conclusive, but they were promising; working for the U. S. Public Health Service in a Harvard laboratory at Boston, Dr. Joseph William Schereschewsky rubbed tallow on the legs of mice until experimental cancer developed. To those mice he applied high frequency electrical currents and in 30 mice the cancerous growths subsided. Other mice the current killed, Dr. Schereschewsky thinks, because he did not know the curative current frequency. But he is not certain. There may be other factors...