Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman William Orville Douglas, 40. As Franklin Roosevelt's fourth appointee took his seat at the extreme left, he rubbed his nose, smiled at his wife and nine-year-old son, Bill Jr. Deprived while on the bench of his usual cigaret, Justice Douglas nervously twiddled a red rubber band as Justice Roberts read two momentous decisions...
...debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate reached a point where at one moment a resolution was voted out, in and out and in again, and then had to stand for redefinition. while time limits stretched and snapped like rubber bands...
...dynamics of muscle stretching and joint bending can never be learned from dead men. Last week at the Boston meeting of the American Association of Anatomists, Drs. Gustave J. Noback and Irving Rehman of New York University told of an artificial corpse they are now molding from rubber...
...Spongy rubber organs are cast in molds made "by spraying liquid rubber "like whitewash" on human organs. Bundles of rubber bands are used for muscle fibres. Supple rubber phantoms, said the scientists, "might prove better than anything we have...
Played under practically the same rules, indoor polo differs from outdoor polo in five major respects: three players instead of four; four chukkers instead of eight; smaller field; playing surface of clay, sand and shavings; leather-covered rubber ball instead of a wooden ball...