Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Contemptibles," pensively suggested the Ibex, as he sadly slipped a small package of tooth-powder in his rubber boot...
...with prodigious velocity into the ceiling, and again cleaving great furrows in the floor; sometimes riding the bicycle, sometimes the bicycle riding me; and once, after a brief but interesting struggle, I found myself, by a succession of wonderful convolutions, so intricately interwoven with the spokes and hub and rubber tire of the front wheel that I seemed to be a natural and necessary part of its construction; while the hind wheel had thrown itself jauntily into the air, and, with its rapid revolutions, was playing sweet &AEolian melodies against the margin of my ear. All this was more...
...mule started, first with five or six buckjumps of twenty feet or more, and then went off at a tangent down the road, his tail high in the air, puffing fire from his nostrils, and increasing his speed at every jump, whilst the poor detective, bouncing like an india-rubber ball on his back, landed alternately upon the sharp protuberances of the army saddle, and cried to him to stop, that he wanted to get off and walk...
...prevent shocks to visitors, the regulation costume for all not belonging to some association will consist of a long ulster, a pair of rubber boots, a rubber hat and cape, fencing gloves, and masks. Thus it will be impossible to identify the numerous students who neglect college work to devote themselves to exercise...
...Students who use the Track frequently will find it to their advantage to wear rubber-soled slippers, and to reverse, statedly, the order of running...