Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives his patient a sip of barium sulphate in thick cream and a moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected stripe indicates potentially serious trouble. Dr. Hampton now is trying to adapt the same method to showing the haustra, or tucks, of the colon which often churn up disease...
...hour and ten minutes, Londos last week turned his back on his opponent, reached across his own shoulder to seize Brown ing's head, tossed him over his shoulder in a "flying mare." After three "flying mares," Champion Browning was too sore and puzzled to do more than rub his neck. Champion Londos seized him by the crotch, spun him in the air, dropped him on the canvas, fell on top, pinned his shoulders to the floor...
...Rub snake oil, skunk fat and fishing-worm oil into a joint to cure arthritis...
Only six weeks ago Dr. Wolman, outdone with the Labor Board's support of the A. F. of L. system, resigned. Only strong pleas from General Johnson got him to withdraw his resignation. Labor man he is but he does not rub shoulders with the labor men whom open-shop industrialists most dislike and distrust. Nor is he a believer in the regimentation of industry. In Washington he has been an anomaly, for he is firmly pro-labor and equally firm in believing that labor fares best under a sound capitalistic system...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...