Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stuhler of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, will be at the Union today from 3.30 to 5 P. M., to interview men who wish to cuter a student's training class beginning this July at the Firestone plant. Appointments may be made by signing up today in a blue book which has been placed in the Union for that purpose. Only those interested in obtaining permanent employment in the fire business need apply...
...number of auto tire companies have already retired from the field of billboard advertising, and two large producers of spark plugs and flour are preparing similar retreats. In some of the eastern states, the removal of these hideous and obstructive signs is being hastened by restrictive legislation. Women's clubs and other civic organizations are earnest supporters of the movement for their abolition. And the extension of prohibitive legislation will certainly hasten the withdrawal of manufacturers who in general are more weary of this expensive and unproductive competition...
...along the highways can hardly be estimated. When long lines of malted cows no longer straggle across the deep-blue meadow, the autoist may find line to admire the bovine sedateness of the brirdled cow. When the sad white pup ceases to moan up into the victrola, when the tire twins stop rubbing their eyes and get to bed, when that inexecrably good-looking rounder stops boasting of the mile he never walked, when the world has used up all that good gulf gasoline, then the tired eyes of city dwellers may no longer be tortured by the garish extravagances...
...this time bow its head to the charges of no less an authority than Amos Alonzo Stagg, director of athletics at the University of Chicago. There is little doubt, in the opinion of Mr. Stagg, that modern youth has been allowed to grow up softer than a punctured balloon tire. He would put the blame on such Innocent appearing things as late hours, rich foods, and indulgence in other luxuries of life which he believes have combined to enervate the present generation...
...constant ally. I was further informed that when Bela Kun was taken from jail it was the Countess who was his escort on that occasion. We have deported the Emma Goldmans and others whose sufferings make them prey to any people, whether communistic or nihilistic. And the en tire policy of the Government is the prohibition of just the type of undesirable as Countess Karolyi. ... I regret having to launch an attack upon a woman, but the issue is too important for squeamishness...