Word: rubbering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George V, instead of being forced to embrace the husband's nationality. U. S. women already have this right. ¶ Gloomed at a statement by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson that "after thorough consideration" the Labor Government has decided to make no reduction in the $10 fee collected for rubber stamping (visaing) the passport of each U. S. citizen bound for Great Britain...
...rubber stampings at $10 each give the British Treasury an extra $1,000,000 every year. Rather than lose this, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, now in the agony of bringing forth a budget which will balance despite an increase in the "dole" paid to British can't-works and won't-works, insisted stubbornly that the "nuisance" be continued, even against the ultimate interests of the Empire...
Under the stage-management of Capt. William H. Stayton, board chairman of the National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment,* the first witness was Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Manhattan private-banker, director of Guaranty Trust Co., New York Trust Co., Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, New York Railways, Fifth Avenue Coach Co., Chicago Motor Coach Co. As a colonel in the War, Mr. Murphy was adjutant of the Rainbow Division, A. E. F. He declared...
...device, dubbed by frivolous reporters "Massard's Stab Register," consists of a pair of electrified foils and a pair of electrified plastrons (chest protectors), the whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked...
...humidly hot in Sumatra; the intense sunlight encourages luxuriant plant life. One of the chief Sumatran products is, as all the world knows, rubber. South American rubber is garnered mainly from wild trees, carried through jungle paths. In the Far East and Middle East the business is much more highly organized. To handle the product roads have been built, heavy trucks imported; railroad tracks have been laid. The only primitive factor remaining is the labor-cheap labor that can be bought for about 30? a day. Loinclothed natives do most of the work. They slit the rubber tree...