Word: rub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall sports season soon starts feeling its strength. Time comes for asking what here you got. Football scribes rub their chins and don't say very much. Asked about Harvard soccer, the good scribe does the same thing but he might put his tongue in his check. There is a distinct feeling that Varsity Coach Jack Carr may be about to open a golden...
Twenty years later Claude has settled down as the wife of a farmer. Husband Ernest, though he leads a peasant's hard life, is no peasant. He dreams only of making enough money to buy back the family chateau, restore its ruins. As farm & family chores rub the bloom off Claude's romance, she takes to her memories for consolation, in spare moments begins to scribble in a copy book. By the time she has joined the past to the present she has filled and destroyed three little books, has lost the desire to fill any more...
...executive and a minor employe. In this role Christian X has been one of Denmark's most valued Kings, for his people rate him as sensible as he is imposing. His preference for living in the Amalienborg Palace, one of four identical rococo buildings which rub shoulders with shops, hotels and private houses, instead of in vast Christiansborg Palace with its golden crown looming into the sky and including the Houses of Parliament and Denmark's Supreme Court, they regard as a demonstration of good judgment rather than a gesture of humility. It makes good sense...
...friends had given him for Christmas and wishing in vain be could return most of the things they did give him. Friends pass by. Some with tanned faces that bespeak of southern holidaying. A lucky few with ruddy faces who had found snow in which to ski and rub the protesting faces of their loves. And all to the great irritation of the Vagabond, shouting a Happy New Year. Then and there he makes a solemn vow never to wish more than one such felicitation. Repetition strains the worth of sentiment. Besides, the wisdom of being happy about...
Keep the skis and wax for some time in a warm room before waxing. Rub on a rough coating over the running surface of the skis, and smooth it down with the palm of the hand, rubbing it in one direction only; that is, from point to back...