Word: tether
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer need families tether goats in backyards. No longer need they endure the caprice stench...
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Said Bobby Burns, sapient Scot: "Nae man can tether Time." So TIME, at times, runs wild. Thus, TIME which "discovereth all things," blazoned business item commending Servel President Seaber for expeditious action in approaching production of gas fired refrigerators. Not discovered by TIME is the fact that for over two years the Ice-o-lator, gas fired refrigerator, has been serving hundreds of homes. Its makers, National Refrigerating Co., Winchester Arms sponsored corporation, apparently lack potent publicity promoter. "Improve your TIME and your TIME will improve you." Reader, not yet subscriber, V. MACGRATH...
Near Kansas City, Misaji Kawahara, truck gardener, tethered his horse to a tree as a storm approached, sought shelter for himself indoors. Lightning stabbed across the sky. Thunder dinned madness into the frightened horse. Rearing, plunging, it drew the tether rope ever tighter, choked to death as the halter contracted like a hangman's noose...
...departed in 1924. Last year (TIME, July 28) the $26,000,000 Grain Marketing Co. was incorporated amid shouts of applause by professional rather than vocational "farmers." Now the Grain Marketing Co. has apparently in its turn reached the end of its tether, and faces dissolution...