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Word: exhausting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Board of Trade and Transportation begged to differ. He announced that the committee had given "serious study and conference to this question." "We believe," he added, "that a great menace to public welfare is involved. The tests so far made for ventilation have been inadequate. . . . The present exhaust openings . . . are totally inadequate . . . we suggest . . . further tests." Autoists crowding impatiently at the crawling ferries must settle down to a new wait; the Manhattan and New Jersey tunnel opening is once more delayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Inadequate Ventilation | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Pittsburgh officials, frightened at the appearance of rabies in their district, have devised an efficient method of killing stray dogs. Three motorized wagons patrol the streets. Each wagon has an air-tight box into which the poisonous exhaust gases of the motor enter. Whenever the dog-catcher on the driver's seat sights an unmuzzled dog unattended by a human, he tries to snare it. If he does catch the dog, he heaves it into the suffocating box and soon the live dog is a dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Madness | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...last sally struck Mr. Hendrick as rather cute, and he chuckled. But his was no mentality to exhaust itself in a few feeble words. There was more to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hands Off" Sign Belongs on Venus de Milo, Declares Mr. Hendricks Describes Discobolus as Waiter Heaving Dishes | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

...many places and many people in this rapid world and in exactly the same way with scores of mountains and miles of trail, but with the satisfaction only, of numbers and of mileage. A colleague of mine used to say, "I go to a different place-every summer and exhaust the region." We never doubted that the region breathed a sigh of relief when he departed, but really he was more to be pitied. Burroughs did not weary of "Slabsides," Bolles of Chocorua, or Torrey of Franconia. And in trail work you get really to know your trails, your mountains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White Mountain Trail Pioneers Battle All the Forces of Nature | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

...American educators rightly understood the character, scope, and function of university training in such professions as law and medicine, and to his forceful initiative and convincing advocacy the improvement of medical and legal education in the United States is largely due. These notable contribution to education by no means exhaust the list of his services; indeed, by virtue of his leadership in many fields of social and civic endeavor, he may be confidently acclaimed our first citizen, as he is properly acclaimed our most able and successful educator...

Author: By Frederick VANDERBILT Field, | Title: Harvard's Greatest Birthday Party | 12/15/1926 | See Source »

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