Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be dipped repeatedly into ink reservoirs. How well it would be, men early reflected, to have an ink reservoir attached to the pen. Many were the experiments during the past 100 years to do so; many the failures. About 50 years ago, Lewis E. Waterman succeeded. The hard-rubber barrels of his early pens were made in two sections screwed together. Mr. Waterman furnished medicine droppers with those early pens...
...cloth stuffed with hair; balls caromed crazily. Tablebeds were wood; cues wood untipped. With these and cruder implements billiards was played for many centuries; references to its ancestry are found in Shakespeare and stories of the Crusades. About 100 years ago leather cue tips; stone table beds; and rubber cushions clustered to change the game. In 1854 one Michael Phelan contrived an improved cushion; became first U. S. champion. Many masters have succeeded him. Today great players are Edouard Horemans, Belgium; Eric Hagenlacher, Germany; Kinrey Matsuyama, Japan; Felix Grange, France; William Hoppe, Welker Cochran, Jacob Schaefer...
...Rubber. Ajax Rubber Co. of Racine, Wis. and McClaren Rubber Co. of Charlotte, N. C., have consolidated. Joint assets: $16,000,000; chairman of the directorate: J. C. Weston of Ajax; president: H. L. McClaren of the McClaren company...
Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...Java he served the rich Van Ressler long and faithfully. Van Ressler was grateful. He rewarded Dundee by giving him a generous portion of his rubber plantation. The trees were young but would be ready to tap in a year or so. Success was at hand...