Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better kind of phosphorus for matches is the red variety, which is used on the box in making safety matches, and catches fire if you rub it hard enough with the powdered glass and active chemicals in the head of the match. This is a mild-mannered, quiet sort of a substance, it doesn't catch fire in the air until you heat it quite hot, it won't dissolve in anything, and it can be eaten without any discomfort...
...hair with a warm turkish towel; pat it-do not rub...
...again, and consequently manufactured tobacco is on the gain. One feature of the tobacco industry sometimes overlooked is the snuff business, which is also gaining in popularity. Little snuff is now inhaled through the nostrils in the old-fashioned way; instead its users, especially male and female mill-hands, rub it on their gums...
...number of years ago it was a favorite catch phrase of the great unwashed that a college education was no doubt in itself a splendid thing, but that when the college graduate came to rub shoulders with those sons of the son who had made their way unassisted by means of their native ingenuity, he was left hopelessly behind. The implication, of course, was that a college training left a man unfitted to cope with practical affairs. Though this misconception has been exploded for some time, the same prejudice still seems to crop out occasionally against specialized graduate schools...
...pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford, U. S. Steel Corp., General Motors, Allied Chemical and Dye, Kennecott Copper, Anaconda Copper, American Radiator, U. S. Rub-ber-all subscribed money, money, more than needed...