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Word: tires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last even in animals. They belong to the kitten or puppy stage. It is a wholesome thing to enjoy for a time, or for a time each day all through life, sports and active bodily exercise. These are legitimate enjoyments, but if made the main object of life, they tire. They cease to be a source of durable satisfaction. Play must be incidental in a satisfactory life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOLID SATISFACTIONS OF LIFE | 9/23/1926 | See Source »

Both Calm. Dictator Mussolini and his would-be assassin both retained a glacial calm. The Premier sat quietly in his car and received an ovation with immobile features while his chauffeur changed a tire punctured by a splinter from the bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bomb | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...porpoise turn over, 20 yards from the mother of his two chil dren. But on the sands of Dover he kissed her, revived her, said: "She's the finest girl in the world, and the best swimmer in the world." Meanwhile, one C. Walter Lissberger, a Manhattan tire merchant, who financed Mrs. Corson, collected $100,000 from Lloyd's, London, on comb, the grandfather, a splendid man, a dead lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Mother | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (son of the tire-potentate), who called on President Coolidge at White Pine Camp, told him what ought to be done for the rubber industry in the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sons | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...through calm and stormy seas, returned (TIME, June 28). Last week he journeyed to White Pine Camp at President Coolidge's invitation. He presented his card: Harvey S. Firestone Jr. If such things were done, there might have been in one corner of the card: Son of famed tire-magnate; in another corner Princeton University, 1920; and finally, below his name in bold type: Extremely well-informed on rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Firestone Jr. | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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