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Word: tiredly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auto Reflex. In Toledo, Mrs. Margaret Cook's car blew a tire at a railroad crossing, careened down the tracks, struck a signal switch, threw a red block against an approaching freight train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...bride, in knee-length white lace and satin, was seven minutes late to the wedding, and the bridegroom arrived 21 mintes later (flat tire). Afterwards, every body adjourned to the bride's place of business, Manhattan's Café Society Up town, where 2,000 guests were invited and 3,000 showed up. Then came the blowoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tabloid Dream | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Butyl is made from petroleum. The Army is getting 12,000,000 Ibs. a month for tire tubes. Other butyl uses: waterproof clothes, tents, hoses, draperies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No More Flats | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...Friday, Hollywood was beginning to tire. But not, Mr. Rank. At week's end, as the suspense became more than Hollywood could bear, someone boldly asked Rank if he were accomplishing anything. "Accomplishing anything?" 'he chuckled. "How can you accomplish anything in fairyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Out the Barrel | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Battle Broom. The popular belief that the Army throws away a truck when it gets a flat tire may die hard. But the long convoys of mobile maintenance companies, wich followed the U.S. armies, boast that they tidy up a battlefield in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR PRODUCTION: One Salvaged Is One Built | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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