Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best known symphony, "Ballet Mécanique," nearly precipitated a riot in Paris. The weird whirr of wood, rubber, steel was radical enough to set the audience howling with conflicting passions of admiration and disgust. But, in addition, the propeller was placed facing them. When it started its great whirling, thereby affording the symphony a sustaining tone analogous to the bass drum, the umbrellas in the front rows, together with hats, skirts, wigs of the favorably as well as the unfavorably disposed, were whisked out of repose into strange embarrassments. The "Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone...
Because fighting Spanish bulls have refused to splinter their horns against humanely steel-armored horses in the bull ring (TIME, Mar. 7), five new types of rubber, canvas and fibre armor were tried out, last week, at Madrid. Bull horns gored deeply through all but the fibre armor, killing four out of the eight horses on which the protective armor was tried out. Madrid bullfight fans howled disapproval of the whole proceeding...
Last week a despatch from Madrid announced new hope for a successful compromise between thrills and humanity. Utilizing discarded automobile tires a rubber coat has been devised for the bull ring horse, thick straw pads hung along the sides. It is hoped that bulls will not object to the innovation; will be satisfied with burying their horns in straw; will not insist upon horseflesh or nothing...
...Harvey S. Firestone and his son, Harvey S. Jr., Akron (Ohio) rubbermen, had luncheon at the White House; told the President about their 30,000-acre rubber farm in the Negro Republic of Liberia...
...Berlin, Dr. W. Christ, experimenter, stained a quart of water with a harmless blue dye; made a neighbor swallow the full quart. The doctor wanted to know how fast the stomach got rid of the water. So at intervals, he ran a rubber tube down the neighbor's throat to his stomach and drained off a little water. He learned: in 15 minutes half the water was gone, in 30 minutes four-fifths...