Word: rubbering
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When the commercial demand for rubber first commenced, the happiest country was Brazil, home of the rubber plant which grows in wild abundance along the Amazon. In 1912 rubber exports from Brazil were second only to coffee, consisted of 43,000 tons with a value of $78,000,000. Brazil seemed entering a new era of prosperity; great public works were begun. But never again was 1912 equalled in Brazil. For in 1876 an Englishman, Sir Henry Wickham, had taken some rubber seeds to London, thence sent them to Ceylon. And by 1900 the Far East had exported four tons...
...Franklin (Frumkin), Brooklyn toreador, that he could not hold a bullfight in New Jersey. Toreador Franklin had planned one for next week. He wanted to show U. S. citizens how he did it in Spain. He promised that it would be a gentle fight. He planned to use a rubber sword, pad the bull's horns. He said he would wave his cape and let the bull run at him. But not unless it was absolutely necessary would the bull be harmed...
...dark operatically. But last week British Broadcast Co. came to the rescue (as it did some years ago for British orchestral music), announced that it would subsidize Covent Garden Opera to the extent of $150,000 a year. The new Company, headed by F. A. Szarvasy of Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. will present 200 performances a year. Only for ten weeks in the spring will world-famed artists be engaged. Six-week seasons in autumn and winter and fortnightly seasons in six outlying cities will be given by British artists at popular prices. The scheme is not unlike that propounded...
...Gentlemen: Knowing that you are interested in eliminating all possible risk of bodily injury to your football players, we want to call your attention to the many advantages of using our rubber line markers...
Instead of declaring a final verdict, the rubber game between the University and graduate soccer teams concluded their season's informal series with a draw, 2 to 2, yesterday afternoon on the field behind the business School. As a result of this, the two teams are exactly tied in their series, the graduates won the opening game, 3 to 1, the Harvard team won the second, 2 to 1, while yesterday's game resulted only...