Word: tallow
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...Ohio, as populous as Schenectady, has its own Parliament (Althing),* its own Premier, its own Lutheran Bishop. Fifty flourishing savings banks, universal old age pensions and the University of Reykjavik attest the prosperity of Icelanders who export 58,000,000 kroner worth of fish, horses, sheep, hides, oils, tallow, and expend only 50,000,000 kroner annually on imports...
Painter Scott told stories about the institution's first "undergraduate body" of 40 students; how there was no room for them at the college to study, but only to recite; how they went to their classrooms, which were lit by tallow dips, bearing pieces of wood picked up on the way to put in the stoves; how they went "downtown" to beer parlors of an evening, until the University president (of a staff of three), John W. Johnson,* caught them and made a "fine talk" in class...
...tribe of Eskimos gathered at Karnah, far North on the coast of Greenland. Fur clad, tallow-faced, they squatted in a ring. Before them all, the previously respected Eskimo Kudlooktoo confessed himself a murderer...
...adopted him, a pretty, tallow-colored stripling, in 1909. She had him educated privately in England and at the Sorbonne in France. Then she took him out among the Theosophists. At Adyar, India, on December 28th, 1925, he was lecturing to a very large audience under the Banyan Tree. He was concluding his lecture by speaking of the World Teacher, with the words, "He comes to those who want, who desire, who long, and-" a contraction passed over his body and a voice of penetrating sweetness rang through his lips. . . . "I come to those who want sympathy, who want happiness...
...youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden to Jews because it might come from a ritually unclean beast...