Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene in "We Moderns" comes when a crowd of youthful revellers crashes down on London roofs in a blazing dirigible. For some reason, it is about as exciting as shaking hands with a rubber glove full of wet mud in a school boy initiation...
...Rubber and rubber goods...
...must object to your loose and inexact use of the word "pander" in your issue of Sept. 21, in which you refer to "Thomas Cook & Son, and other panders of rubber-neckery...
...would scarcely fill a section in the Stadium today. Still, it was a slashing, spirited contest, especially after the Yale players unfamiliar with Harvard rules, grasped the idea of how to tackle. A particularly desperate scrimmage in the third quarter flattened even the ball into a disk of limp rubber. The best of traditions was established by the presence among the spectators of numerous ladies seated decorously in their carriages. Harvard drew first blood, setting subsequent University teams a worthy example by kicking four goals while Yale failed to score...
...hulls of ships. Returning to Yucatan, he gauged the point on the sacred well's brink whence the victims were probably thrown. He hurled in logs of human weight to approximate the drowning spot. He brought in a dredge, and after removing tons of mud put on his rubber armor and steel helmet, dropped down and recovered 90 skeletons and a priceless collection of jade and golden images, now on view at the Peabody museum. The Carnegie Foundation will carry on his work...