Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with...
Undergraduates won't have to rub any Aladdin's lamp to find themselves thrilling thousands with their voices, or to have the satisfaction of building up popular radio programs, because this evening the Crimson Network is prepared to offer them these opportunities if they come to a meeting at 7 o'clock in Sheppard Hall studios...
...rest of the Faculty whose haughty dignity frosted anyone without at least a full beard and a full professorship, Copey, as he was soon known, became friendly with undergraduates of all sorts. His "open house on Wednesday evening after ten" became the forum of the College where Chaucer might rub elbows with Yale's star half in the discussion. And always, after a little urging, the golden-voiced tutor would read his favorite passages from the Bible, from Kipling, from the classics. The "Copeland Reader," an anthology of these favorites, is the most typical of Copey's books...
...Sheik) excited horse-& dog-lovers, also brought high marks from many a high-brow art critic. Daughter of a gentleman rancher who founded the town of Harrah, Wash., June Harrah also likes animals better than people, rates the race-tracky smell of Absorbine Jr. (used to rub down horses) higher than My Sin. Because well-heeled horse and dog owners like to have portraits of their pets on their mantelpieces, Sculptress Harrah charges much higher prices than the average bookend and paper weight animal sculptor, gets $200 for a bronze dog, $700 up for a bronze horse. For four years...
...square model of a mythical community called "Broadacres." "A new housing for civilization," Broadacres is Wright's answer to the problem of the crowded machine-age city. In Broadacres, homes, factories, office and municipal buildings are separated by wide park spaces planted with lawns and trees. Its farms rub elbows with its town hall. Its warehouses are part of its underground railway system...