Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraordinary thing about operation is that peritoneum not opened or in other words the abdominal cavity was not laid open. There practically no loss blood except what was expected on making superficial incision and consequently no risk for any post-operative hemorrhage. Incision was closed completely leaving small rubber tubing as drain. The tube was inserted by stab near the incision leading to neighborhood of opening made in ureter. Technical name for this trouble is calculus or stone in ureter or ureterolithiasis. Operation for removal stone on left ureter is ureterolithotomy. ?Januario R. Estrada...
Under such defective organization, the advisors become little more than a rubber stamp, and the Freshman, deprived of any experienced assistance, blunders through the first weeks of classes and often fails to achieve satisfactory orientation until the mid-year period has passed...
...beet with embarrassment, had nothing to say publicly. His anonymous explanation: the letter was a form letter sent out from Democratic National headquarters; an underling, unauthorized, had filled in the blanks with Mr. Sinclair's name; the realistic signature and personal postscript were the work of a rubber stamp...
Laytex is made from latex (rubber tree milk) from which proteins, sugars and water solubles are removed. Lengths of wire to be insulated are fed vertically through tanks containing the processed milk. At each immersion a film of milk adheres to the wire and dries, any excess falling back into the tank. Thus, by repeated dippings, the insulation is built around the conductor, the wire is accurately centred, and the wall thickness of the insulation is uniform...
...Winnipeg market, a dark storm of selling tumbled the price 6¢ per bu. in two days. In Liverpool, Rotterdam and Buenos Aires wheat fell in confusion. In Chicago, no longer a world market, all contracts dropped below $1 for the first time since the Drought. Other commodities, notably rubber, joined the downward march...