Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl who has given up many a marrying chance to be the town doctor's mistress watches him gradually tire...
...solemn test flight was conducted, with the expert counsel of General Superintendent William H. Collins, who became pigeon-conscious when launching ships for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Two dozen racing homers from the coops of Tire-Builder Frank Eisentrout were released in the dock. They flapped gladly, promptly homeward. So impressive was the demonstration that the number of christening pigeons was raised...
...mother's side) were engaged in the shipping industry of New England. He spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront of Boston, where he was born, and Bath where his family summered. When he accepted President Frank A. Seiberling's offer of a job with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900, it was with misgiving. Akron was so far inland...
...Norfolk, N. Y. one Harold Green bent down to change a tire on his automobile when an arrow pierced his left ear. It had been shot by an unidentified girl archer...
...moved into an effortless paddle less than a length behind Yale & Princeton. Yale was rowing about 36 to Cornell's 28 or 29-an almost insultingly slow beat for a two-mile race. Princeton kept up a fatiguing high beat for the first mile and had begun to tire when Jimmy Burke, the Cornell coxswain, began to raise his stroke. At the mile and one-half, (here was a fraction of a second when it seemed that Cornell might lose. Wilson faltered, but Burke splashed water on his face. At the finish Cornell was two lengths ahead of Yale...