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...ride back to Johnston Gate, I tried to make sense of what I had just experienced. So this was how it felt to be an influential alumnus of Harvard College, to rub elbows with a Winthrop, a Chase, a titan of industry or a baron of the financial world. Soon I would be entering their world and their value system; the thought made me feel uncomfortable for a moment. It was a feeling similar to the one I had when the driver couldn't let the Quad students on the bus and out of the rain...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Beginning and an End | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...outright promise by the Soviets to ease emigration rules permanently seems unlikely. Still, the Administration intends to avoid pressure tactics for the time being. Said an Administration official: "It is important that we show them our policy is not designed to undermine them or to rub their noses in the dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Atmosphere of Urgency | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

That it many rub the rust from your steel...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...uses a heavy blue ink that has many of the same properties as rub ber cement (refills are available in black and red). About 100 times thicker than honey, it is contained in a cartridge in the pen's barrel, which is pressured with a charge of nitrogen gas; the gas forces the ink onto the pen's ballpoint when it is pressed against a surface. In effect, an antigravity pen, it can be used in any position. The writing can be rubbed out with an ordinary eraser up to several days later; thereafter the ink fully hardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Erasable You | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...frostbite victim "should not use dry heat like a stove or a heating pad and should keep the extremity free-floating in the water and not rub it," she added...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Nurse Explains Winter Danger Of Frostbite | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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