The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.
Every time I toe the rubber, it’s no different for me than it was in the World Series.
The condom has saved so many lives, and it’ll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.
Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
The planet’s spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we’ve laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.
I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.
I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.
I needed a capo – a clamp to hold down the strings – so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.
I’ve always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.
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