Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Additional gloom in the tire business was occasioned by a renewal of price-cutting. Fisk Rubber commenced it by reducing prices sharply. U. S. Rubber and Firestone Tire have followed suit with cuts of between 10 and 15% in old style high pressure tires and of about 20% in the new balloon tires...
Author Henry may perhaps be remotely autobiographical when he has his hero start the book by saying: "I thank God that I have always possessed an instinct to jot things down on paper." In any case, while his book is marred by certain immaturities of style and some inexcusably bromidic Latin and French quotations, he himself has managed to jot down a not-too-implausible tale, and some fairly deft characterizations. In between his other activities, he has evidently given some thought to Harvard's race question also, for echoes of that problem appear throughout the story...
...metre free style swim (for women) : Gertrude Ederle of the Women's Swimming Association of N. Y., 1 min. 583/5 sec., at Briarcliff Manor...
...meter free-style swim: Johnny Weissmuller of Chicago, 50% sec., at Indianapolis...
...which this opens up are enormous. Inequalities of stature, which have hitherto been almost insuperable obstacles in the way of borrowing other people's clothes, will be smoothed out as though with a flatiron. Dress manufacturing will be standardized, and mail order hourses will be concerned only with width, style, and pattern. Even the annual parade of the street-cleaners will be orderly and level-headed...