Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said he: "I'd be tickled pink if they would." He was also sure that Wisconsin law would back him up: "If anyone doubts the legal ability of a deputy to stop a car, let him keep on going. He'll get a bullet in a rear tire...
Peace Preservation Corps. Japanese never tire in their efforts to find Chinese who will act as trustworthy puppets, and in the past two years they have equipped with Japanese rifles, Japanese cartridges and even Japanese machine guns several thousand Chinese known as the Peace Preservation Corps of "General"' Yin Ju-keng (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935 et seq.). Toothy Mr. Yin, who looks most of the time like a startled rabbit, is a Chinese with a potent Japanese in-law who became a "general" overnight by so styling himself, and by the grace of Japanese bayonets. He was ruling uneventfully...
...Stella H. Adamson was driving Dr. May E. Walker to the cottages which they jointly owned and rented at Lake Tahoe, Calif. Mrs. Adamson's rear tire treads were worn smooth. The pavements were wet. Suddenly the car skidded, slid, spun around, knocked down a telephone pole, ripped out 15 ft. of wire fence and came to a sickening stop in the ditch. Dr. Walker was hurled from her seat with such force that she was jammed jackknife fashion 25 in. through a 15-in. opening in the door...
...photographers who tried it. Where chivalry is rare, he made no secret of his feeling that men should not swear when ladies were present. For strength, John Montague was marvelous. When a friend had a blowout, he held the rear end of the car up while he changed the tire. John Montague could drink whiskey by the quart but no one ever saw him drunk. Finally, he was a prodigious golfer...
...Those accused by the FTC: A. G. Spalding & Bros., N. Y.; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia; L. A. Young Golf Co.. Detroit; Worthington Ball Co., Elyria, Ohio; Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago; U. S. Rubber Products, N. Y.; Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp., N. Y.; Acushnet Process Co., New Bedford, Mass...