Word: rub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even those men who did come from other parts of the United States were not required to live in College dormitories and often stayed in boarding houses around the Square. The University was not concerned with making its students mingle together to rub off their provincialism...
...photography rub shoulders with painting and sculpture as a fine art? Master U.S. Photographer Edward Steichen has never doubted it.* His main job nowadays is planning exhibits of camera craft for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and every year since 1947 he has mounted shows to prove his point. Steichen's latest demonstration: his selection of 187 of the best pictures that have appeared in LIFE in the past 15 years...
...plan for MoPac. It would give him control, by cutting in common stockholders, but he insisted it would also give bondholders a better deal too. He would give each bondholder $445 in cash and a $1,000 bond with a fixed annual interest rate. There was a rub to Young's plan; the bondholders might have to wait a while before they got their cash. While paying them off with some of the $104 million in MoPac's till, Young would use most of the road's cash to improve MoPac's financial condition...
...said that members of the Grand New Party "cannot waste time shaking hands with each other . . . The GNP has got to rub truly friendly elbows with everybody . . . Our victory will make America American again...
Next day, Mr. Salteena bluntly told Bernard: "You can help me perhaps to be more like a gentleman . . . Well. . . said Bernard I can give you a letter to my old pal the Earl of Clincham ... He might rub you up ... Oh ten thousand thanks said Mr. Salteena ... If you would be so kind as to keep an eye on Ethel while I am away ... I dont think you will find her any trouble." To which Bernard answered warmly, "No I dont think I shall...