Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Snowden, onetime Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer: ''This plan to abolish all taxes on hundreds of thousands of acres of land ... is perfectly outrageous. ... A monstrosity! . . . The landlords are to be put still further on the dole. . . . Scandalous ! . . ." And Cripple Snowden thumped the floor with his two rubber-tipped canes...
...Lisbon, Portugal, one Captain Franz Romer got into a rubber-covered canvas boat, 20 feet long. In it were 55 gallons of water, 590 pounds of food, and some oars. Captain Romer sat down, sniffed the air and started to row across the Atlantic Ocean, to Manhattan...
...chords So beautiful that no cathedral holds More inspiring altars and candles of God's, Tonight, my sister perished! Ah, too early! She was still young and all of us loved her; Death has now clutched her in his oily Claws that are strong and stretch like some rubber. Can you not write some words to ease my heart And write about her a touching little poem? And then, though dead, she ever will not Be absent from us though death has riven us apart...
...chemists, engineering chemists; chemists who worked with spectroscope and vacuum tube to find out the structure of the atom, chemists who spent their days with rabbit and guinea pig to ferret out the secrets of growth, chemists who messed about with saps and sawdust to build up substitutes for rubber, sugar, silk. More than 300 scientific papers were read. More than a fifth of these were on the program of the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, the longest program of any of the 16 divisions. This division united with the Organic Division to give a symposium on "Atomic Structure...
Engaged. Henry Belin du Pont, assistant treasurer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (celluloid, gunpowder, paints, rubber goods), of Wilmington, Del.; to Miss Margaret Wilson Lewis, of San Antonio, Texas...