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Word: rubbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...site has been selected?the old American League baseball grounds. No more peanuts, no more pop; beds will occupy the space that once contained bleachers; rubber gloves will replace the old saliva-oiled mits; and the palisades of the Hudson, that once echoed to the roar of ten thousand fans, will hear not a whisper, not a single cry of "Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greatest Centre | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

Robert V. Jaros, 18, Illinois University student, brought forth a model monoplane, driven by twisted rubber bands, that broke two world's records by staying in the air 10 min. 14 sec. and covering a mile and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: At Dayton | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...next day the second match was played and this turned out to be a different story, due to the fact that it was played under the Rugby rules. Instead of a round rubber ball, as had been used the previous day, a leather covered oval ball, much after the manner of the present day football, was put into service. The result was a scoreless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth-McGill Game Recalls Momentous Contest With Canadians in 1884 and Flow of Champagne Afterwards | 10/7/1924 | See Source »

...classroom is vain if it is contradicted by the spirit or atmosphere of the student's home, you feel bound to carry the opportunity of education into that home, and your school or college is embarked on adult education. So much the better. Thus will end the rubber stamp the stereotype ideal of training, which now lingers chiefly in certain small places where all the students take the same course and develop the same taste in dress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...economic resources of the Islands are inexpressibly and inexhaustibly rich. Indeed, they have what not only the United States, but every country needs for the cultivation of industry; valuable woods of various kinds, including, of course, the rubber tree; sugar plantations, coconut groves, orange, banana and pineapple farms. The waters teem with fish. Cattle are successfully raised. The land is fer tile. The climate benign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Democracy | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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