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...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 a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
...opportunist support from Stanley Baldwin to David Lloyd George (TIME, Nov. 7). Since Labor is not likely to emerge weakened from the coming conflict, a Liberal resurgence would slash deep into the Conservative majority. Before such a slash is attempted, Stanley Baldwin, most negative of British Prime Ministers, must toughen the resistance of his party by displaying positive, constructive leadership...
From their comment it was plain that Italy's continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...
...country with currency. Working at capacity the Bureau of Printing and Engraving has hardly been able to keep up with the demand for fresh dollar bills as those in use wear out. It has been obliged to put "fresh" bills into circulation without allowing them to age and toughen. The result is that they have worn out even more rapidly. Other factors, the handling of paper money by garage men with greasy hands, etc., have contributed toward making the life of dollar bills shorter and shorter, until now the bills wear out on an average in less than a year...
Alum dissolved in water is prescribed by Coach E. L. Farrell of the University cross-country team to toughen the soles of the feet of all candidates for the University and Freshman teams. It was the method used by the United States Army to prepare recruits for a long march...