Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...market for crude rubber has continued to rise, under the influence of light U. S. and British stocks, steady demand for the automobile trade and curtailed British production in the British plantations...
...heat like the glare from a furnace door and won in the time it took the three impersonal chronometres to count 9 min. 32 61/100 sec. Huge, hairy Herbert Schwarze from Wisconsin twirled a 16-lb. shot around his head as if it had been a handball on a rubber band, cast it 48 ft. 1¼ in. to break a Conference record which had stood for 21 years. Justin Russell of Chicago jumped 6 ft. 6 in. over a bar, though there was nothing on the other side but sand. Northrup, teammate of Hubbard, won the javelin throw. When...
...another august convention in Atlantic City-that of the American Bronchoscopic Society - Dr. Sidney Yankhauer, of Manhattan, described how cancer can be relieved by means of a chain made of three links, preferably platinum, with a capsule containing radium in each link, which, in a rubber casing and weighted with a gold ball, is swallowed by the patient and kept in the intestines several hours a day. Other cancer treatments were outlined by the learned members. All agreed that there was no cure...
Trumbower was far from the puzzle to Harvard batters that he was at Cambridge Wednesday, and he was driven from the rubber in one and a fraction innings. Two runs were registered in the first on a hit by Zarakov, a three-bagger by Todd, and a sacrifice fly by Tobin. Five more hits were added in the second on a single by Ullman, two bases on balls, a hit batsman, an error, and a single by Tobin. Neubauer, who relieved Trumbower in the box, was thereafter almost unhittable. A single by Knowlton, a double by Samborski, and a triple...
Doctor-Explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice is gathering ethnological, geological, commercial data (rubber, gutta-percha). It is his eighth trip to tropical South America, where he has already mapped some...