Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Caleb Loring opened the evening's festivities with a goal at 0:14 in the very first Crimson rush, the Chasemen let fly a shower of rubber at Engineer goalie Al Tashjian, and when the boys started to scrape the ice at the end of the first canto, the score...
...that same day: Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, riled by a charge in Eugene Meyer's Washington Post that he had failed to lay in a sufficient rubber stockpile, punched Mr. Meyer at a Washington party; WPB cut out the use of iron and steel in golf clubs 50%; pink-cheeked Gaston Henry-Haye, Ambassador of Vichyfrance, presented Franklin Roosevelt with a bound volume of the speeches of Marshal Petain to "enlighten" the President on the "general principles that the Marshal is following...
Surgeon, Old Style. From tail coats, surgeons progressed to shirt sleeves and rubber aprons, not to protect the patient but to protect the surgeon's clothes. One man wore longshoreman's boots, another "butcher's boots which he never cleaned." Only by gradual stages was the present top-to-toe sterile white achieved...
...Erdmann gives credit for the invention of rubber gloves to the late Dr. W. S. Halsted of Johns Hopkins, who thought them up to protect the hands of a pretty nurse he later married. The hand-washing then in vogue took the skin off doctors and nurses alike. Bichloride and carbonate of soda were used. "There was no question of the liberation of chlorine, nor was there any question of destruction of hands and laundry nor of the corrosion of plumbing." Surgeons worked in cotton gloves...
...first to fall; them the Philippines and the "impregnable" stronghold of Singapore, and with it the only large-scale naval base in the Far East. The loss of the Dutch East Indies, Burma, and parts of the Russian Caucasus deprived our armed forces of badly needed oil, rubber, and metals...