Word: rubbings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rub. In Irondale, Mo., Scout Executive Hugh Lake, confident that he was immune to poison ivy, blithely scrubbed his face with it, awoke next day scratching his legs...
...basic style of running. After one look at him, he decided that what the kid needed most was time to develop. Pursell kept him on the "B" squad as long as he dared (until Mel ran a 10.2 against Manual Arts High one day). Then the coach began to rub OR some polish...
...King. One newspaper announced that Rivera had agreed to rub out the offending phrase and substitute another reading Negocio es negocio ("Business is business"). The painter hastily denied it. Hotel Director Luis Osio y Torres Rivas fumed that Rivera had promised, "on the word of a king," to put something different on Ramirez' placard, and then reneged on the grounds that he was, after all, "no king...
...House where just about anyone can feel at home, Winthrop has the most heterogeneous population of nay of the dwellings along the Charles. Here athletics, scientists, socialites, and promising novelists rub plastic trays in the subterranean dining halls, and if there is little united spirit, there is instead a rare atmosphere of live-and-let-live...
...imagine how much amusement you are affording Marxists the whole world over. The apologists for capitalism are still trying to rub poor old Karl...