Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borah in the Senate, Representative Newton of Minnesota in the House, began last week suddenly to talk of something that their colleagues had never heard of. They in turn heard of the matter from Richard O. Marsh, a former diplomatic official of the U. S. in Panama, now a rubber expert, and most distinguished as the discoverer of the "white Indians" (TIME, June 30, 1924, SCIENCE...
...main purpose of these concessions was to prevent the possibility of a large American owned and controlled rubber development in Panama, sufficient in scope to make America independent of the present British monopoly of the world's crude rubber...
...question yet to be definitely answered is whether the concession was a British move to prevent U. S. rubber-planting in Panama. Until that question is settled, the dastardliness of the project cannot be estimated...
...surgeon will let his scalpel pierce the meninges and brain, but the parents of the 16-month-old child that lay on the operating table of the Brownsville and East New York Hospital one night last week had the fullest confidence in the operator, Dr. Raphael Schillinger. Rubber-gloved and white-suited, he bent tensely over the tiny head. High-powered lamps poured their white fire down. Two assistants working beside him, watched him make a deep incision in the porcelain curve of tissue and bone behind the baby ear, held their breath as he worked his bright instrument deeper...
...ahead in the second set. Clearly, nobility must begin to play. Leering at the commoner who had presumed to confront him, nobility began to make loud sneers about lackeys who had exchanged the rug-beater for the tennis racket and would be more at home serving meat balls than rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that the gallery could hear him say that the club must be called the Red-White Club because it admitted to its tournaments, on equal terms with nobility's whitest cockades...