Word: rubberizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What Kind of Congress? "The issue is the same in Illinois as in Ohio," said Taft. "Whether we are going to elect an independent Congress or a rubber-stamp Congress . . . Are we going to establish a socialistic state? If you elect a Democratic Congress and if you move them just a little to the left of the present Congress, you will get the whole [socialist] program...
Miss Witt has been working in the University since 1937. Near the end of World War II, she was secretary to President Conant and worked with him and Bernard Baruch on their famed Rubber Report. She has been with the Counsellor for Veterans ever since the position started at the College...
...Rubber Sandals. They knew what Tandon stood for. For instance, he goes even further than his late, great leader Gandhi in opposing industrialization. He will not eat ordinary sugar because it is refined in mills; instead he uses jaggery, a home-refined sugar. He thinks that all Indians should, like himself, be teetotalers, non-smokers and vegetarians. He hates soap, believes that rubbing the body vigorously with plenty of water is adequate. He condemns Western medicine as evil quackery and believes in the nature cures of Hinduism's innumerable Ayurveda doctors...
...health is almost the same as that of the British; e.g,, he advocates distribution of medicine made by Western methods and is in favor of injecting people's bodies with poisonous drugs. So revered by Tandon is the sanctity of animal life that he condemns leather shoes, wears rubber sandals...
...higher dollar prices for many of their raw materials (e.g., rubber, tin, wool...