Word: stoppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leak Stopper. Lee Rubber & Tire Corp., noting the slow leak in the market for tires, cut the price of its biggest-selling line of tires by about 15%. Lee thus hoped to meet the competition of U.S. Rubber, Goodyear, B. F. Goodrich and Firestone. In the last month they had announced new lines of second-grade quality tires at lower prices...
Cassandra-like prophecies proved right again Saturday night. Plummeting from the basketball Zenith that eluded it by so slim a margin in Tuesday's Columbia overtime heart stopper. Bill Barclay's up-and-down-again team dropped a disappointing 57 to 45 decision in Cornell's Barton Hall...
Perhaps the most ballyhooed performer is Mathis Duo (first time in America) who rides a bicycle upside down somewhere close to the Garden's roof. Although the band doesn't play "A Bicycle Built For Two," the effect is quite convincing if not entirely stylish. Another show-stopper hides under the title of the Newest Sensation on the High-wire, and the star (also new in the States) manages to skip a three-foot rope nearer the ceiling than anywhere else. Before and after his dance he walks up and down a slanting wire, and, though he sways back...
...this sort of talk the free-enterprising Ottawa Journal last week ran an editorial stopper...
...Department of Agriculture has many vexing problems. Last week it had a stopper: a chinchilla with "the slobbers." Its front teeth had grown so long that it could not eat. Agriculture experts did what they could, but the sick chinchilla had slobbered too long; it died of malnutrition...