Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show reached its grand finale with the Justices rubber-stamping decisions and tossing them toward the President in time to the music...
...Fifty-five skating days. Were on the road 64 days in all, but nine days were used as rest periods. "Used the same pair of skates the entire trip. Used 480 steel wheels in all. Used 960 cones on both pairs of skates. Used eight rubber cushions on both pairs of skates. . . ." Skaters Skelly & Shefuga drank only milk and water, daily ate five meals and took two baths. Their trip cost $1,400. For brakes they used canes which were four inches shorter when they arrived than when they started. On smooth level roads they went as fast...
...Changing her scuffed, rubber-soled campus shoes for evening slippers, President Aurelia Henry Reinhardt of Mills College at Oakland, Calif, presided at a dinner celebrating two anniversaries, the 88th of the founding of Mills, one of the oldest colleges for women in the U. S., and the 21st of her successful presidency. That was modest President Reinhardt's concession to the Manhattan fund-raising firm of Tamblyn & Brown, who needed an Occasion to help them raise $1,000,000 for Mills's faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband...
Hindemith's Das Unaufhörliche (The Unending) scoffed at the "mines, oil wells, rubber plantations, graves of the mythless white race." Though conservatives complain about his shocking dissonances, Hindemith has always shown a strong sense of form. He can handle counterpoint as well as any man alive. The German Republic, which liked moderns, gave him a medieval tower to live in. The Hochschule in Berlin made him professor of composition. When the Nazis removed Hindemith and tabooed his works because his wife is Jewish, Wilhelm Furtwangler temporarily resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin...
...experiment in talking down inflation, the President's pronouncement had by last week proved a notable success. His words touched off a world-wide break in commodities which left copper 1½? below its 17? -per-lb. high, lead off 1¼? (high: 7¾? per lb.), rubber off nearly 3#162; (high: 27#162; per lb.), wheat off 6#162; (high: $1.45). Most other staples tumbled proportionately, while the stockmarket took the deepest dive in nearly three years. At week's end such speculative stalwarts as U. S. Steel, Johns-Manville, Air Reduction, Anaconda Copper, International Nickel...