Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvey of Queens to be its candidate this autumn for Mayor of New York. All but annihilating Mr. Harvey's chances before the race began, Berlin newspapers solemnly declared: "If he is elected Mayor, Mr. Harvey has promised to eradicate Communists from New York in two weeks, with rubber hoses." In many ways Adolf Hitler's toughest opponent remained the Catholic Church...
...crew saga of University of Washington, in which Harvard began a new chapter last week, started when famed Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie went to Washington as football coach in 1908. As trainer and rubber Coach Dobie had a onetime bicycle-racer and Chicago White Sox baseball trainer named Hiram B. Connibear. Washington had just decided to have an eight-oared crew, handed the job of coaching it to Trainer Connibear, who had not only never seen a college crew before but never even rowed a boat. It was Coach Connibear who made Washington the producer of almost...
...quality of the tone is affected too by what the flute is made of. Thirty years ago most flutes were wooden. Nowadays all but five U. S. flautists use instruments of silver or some cheaper metal. Flutes have also been made of bamboo, ivory, jade, porcelain, crystalline glass, rubber, papiermâché, wax and human bones...
...lightning bolt. But civilized man, in the Age of Electricity, though he understands the source of the firefly's light does not know how Electrophorus becomes electric. Two years ago Christopher Coates, the New York Aquarium's inquisitive tropical fishman, slipped an electric eel into a hard-rubber trough with metallic contacts an inch apart, discovered that it could light a neon lamp. That stunt became the Aquarium's No. 1 attraction, with three performances daily. Branching his eel out into the field of ceremonial keypushers, he had it supply the initial impulse to start a police...
Spring certainly is in the air these days! Why just yesterday our Wandering Reporter spotted eight of the C. W. W. boys (Cambridge Water Works Workers to you), hard at play in a Boylston Street puddle with their nifty now rubber boots...