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...heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting mixture of glycerin and alcohol is fed through holes in the blade to the outer surface of the windshield. Retail cost, installed in a Douglas...
...that students should be forced to study human biology," Hooton went on. "I merely urge that, at any rate, they rub up against some sort of animals and study them objectively...
...expensive sponsorship of Joe Louis' recent sweet but short fights. Radio Jester Fred Allen, who sells Ipana tooth paste and other Bristol-Myers nostrums, last week bested the bunch by cracking: "I hear if his fights get any shorter the broadcasts will be sponsored by Minit-Rub...
While "embezzlement, bribery and politics" have made "a shambles of Oklahoma City's school system," grumbled the Times, schools in comparable Fort Worth are "an educational fairyland." The paper proceeded to rub it in with two pages of photographs and text picturing Fort Worth's Fairyland...
...Laborite Daily Herald started it by offering a complete set of Dickens for a few shillings. Beaverbrook was in Berlin. He hurried back and called a parley of the Press Lords at the Savoy Hotel. All were ready to compromise, but Beaverbrook had decided to rub his colleagues' noses in the mess they had made. As he put it: "I drew my sword and swore not to place it back in its sheath until I had punished them...