Word: rubbering
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...Borah in the Senate, Representative Newton of Minnesota in the House, began last week suddenly to talk of something that their colleagues had never heard of. They in turn heard of the matter from Richard O. Marsh, a former diplomatic official of the U. S. in Panama, now a rubber expert, and most distinguished as the discoverer of the "white Indians" (TIME, June 30, 1924, SCIENCE...
...ahead in the second set. Clearly, nobility must begin to play. Leering at the commoner who had presumed to confront him, nobility began to make loud sneers about lackeys who had exchanged the rug-beater for the tennis racket and would be more at home serving meat balls than rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that the gallery could hear him say that the club must be called the Red-White Club because it admitted to its tournaments, on equal terms with nobility's whitest cockades...
...worked against Harvard in the series opener. Lackey signalized his reappearance at the plate by collecting three hits in as many times at bat, and he is due to see action tomorrow should a pinch hitter at any time be in order. Goeltz and Handy followed Kellogg to the rubber against Swarthmore, and they will act as Kellogg's relief should the Tiger ace falter tomorrow...
...disabled veteran sent $28 (government allowance for war wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers, bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and dairy firms; chain stores, crockery companies, cloak and suit houses; the dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery, the laundry, millinery, musical and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers, petticoat cutters, physicians, rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and umbrella manufacturers - all were appraised for definite amounts, all came near to filling their quotas...
...Foreign Commerce Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. last week presented an array of statistical comparisons. It showed that on the 1925 list of U. S. imports, crude rubber stood first. Raw silk, coffee, cane sugar were second, third, fourth. Rubber gained in bulk as well as in value. Its total value imported was $429,705,000, a gain over 1924 of 146.6%. Its tonnage increased only 20.9%. (1924's price averaged 24? a pound, 1925's nearly...