Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashioned doctor knew that his horse was able to take care of himself. The modern doctor in a city is so busy thinking about and looking after the oil, gasoline, and tire problems of his automobile that he barely has time for a hasty examination of his patient...
...American looked upon this country and said: "It is ideal." He was Harvey S. Firestone, President of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He had Edwin Barclay, Secretary of State of Liberia, go to the U. S. and together they drew up a pact which was satisfactory to the U. S. Department of State...
...type of crime which entertains them most is the far simpler business of entering some all-night chop-suey restaurant, firing six or seven shots, and departing, while the proprietor splutters out his life upon the greasy floor. Of this daring feat no tongman seems to tire...
Industries never tire of reciting their greatness. Occasionally the recital is an astonishing reminder of the size and complexity of social and industrial organization. Last week, for example, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. issued a booklet of statistics on its busi- ness-just figures-but large ones: ¶ 20.5 billion telephone conversations a year in the U. S. ¶ 24.5 million telephones in use. ¶ 67.8 million miles of telephone wire strung from pole to pole. ¶ 63% of the world's telephones...
...complete plans. Last week the five waited on a fire-escape in Manhattan while inside a group of judges, headed by patrician Whitney Warren, famed architect, sat to find out which was the best. One Percival Goodman, 21, was presently informed that he had designed the pleasantest home for tire filibusterers, won thereby a scholarship of $3,000, two and one-half years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris...