Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual cases, but makes "recommendation to the Faculty on general educational matters" and preserves continuity of policy. Since few members keep abreast of student peccadillos, the Board acts on information submitted by Deans Hanford and Leighton, and usually follows their recommendations; though it is by no means a "rubber stamp" for them...
...Passed a bill to make it easier for widows of ex-Presidents to use the mails free of charge. Present law requires their "written autograph signatures" on their envelopes. The new bill, which went to the Senate, would permit them to put their names on their envelopes with a rubber stamp...
Through the noisy aisles of U. S. machine-tool plants last week rubber-tired food wagons glided. Whenever it pleased them, overalled machinists, black-lipped and pasty-faced under the flourescent green lights, stopped their work for between-meal snacks of milk, sandwiches, crullers, pie. Yankee toolmakers are brought up through a long apprenticeship to have a religious reverence for millionths of an inch, but food is a necessity, for precision suffers when a worker's stomach begins to twinge...
...above is the real McCoy. Mr. Priestley's recipe (TIME, Feb. 19) when finished must have the consistency and digestibility of a rubber bathmat and need a hacksaw to "cut in squares." No authentic Yorkshire Pudding was ever "turned over" to be "done on the other side." It has the temperament of a soufflé and should be treated as gently...
Harvard's score came in the middle of the second period when Warren Winslow circled behind the Eli nets and passed out to Ervin who banged the rubber home around Kieckhefer who had fallen in front of the goal Warren Winslow, Dave Eaton, and Bon Cox, who put on one of his finest displays, made repeated efforts to tally again in the period, but to no avail...