Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James O'Sullivan, 83, of Lowell, Mass., retired originator of "O'Sullivan's" Rubber Heels; in Lowell...
...Harvard this spring when the Crimson once again sallied forth below the Mason and Dixon line. The final count was 6 to 3, but this year's Harvard team lost several valuable scoring opportunities through failure to hit when the bases were occupied. Howard Whitmore '29, will toe the rubber for the home team this afternoon and is counted on to throw a wrench into the smoothly-working Marine machine...
Even so King George passed a melancholy birthday. He lay in his rubber-tired bed by the window of his room in Victoria Tower, looking out at the white blossoms of the hawthorn trees in Windsor Great Park...
...Dudley '31 beat out an infield single and advanced to second on a single by Howard Whitmore '29. Here Trumbull, visiting second baseman, contributed a bauble on Nugent's roller and Dudley scored. McGrath walked and the bases were filled. Ticknor grounded to the infield and Whitmore crossed the rubber with the second tally while McGrath was being thrown out at second...
...thirsty plane flies in a straight course and at a steady speed, the refueling plane maneuvers into position above. When the two planes are in line, at even speed and 15 to 25 feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident...