Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrific speed, but in the next set Tilden began really to unleash his serve. As Richards ran in to volley Tilden slammed drives at his feet, forced him into errors and defensive half volleys, sent him racing back to the baseline for perfect lobs. Richards was beginning to tire. He stopped running up, hung on the baseline as Tilden wanted him to. For no player except Henri Cochet is able to beat Tilden in the backcourt, and this evening Tilden was playing as he did from 1920 to 1926, when no one in the world had a chance against...
...ever been before. Mr. Eaton, whose birthplace, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, had already benefited from his financial greatness, had power and plans only one degree smaller. A potent public utilitarian, he had just begun to fashion the Second Greatest Steel Company. He had also turned to the rubber-tire business and, as greatest stockholder in the greatest rubber companies, he was about to bring order into an often chaotic industry. Furthermore, his financial plans were given a heroic cast because, through them, he felt he was bringing to the Middle West its just share of the control of American Industry...
...framing is printed exactly as is the one presented in the magazine. By this I mean particularly if the back of the President's picture will bear in silver, blue, black, and gold, a full-page legend to the effect that "Goodyear" is the leading make of tire...
Aged 55, "Joe" Cotton, a Harvard man, had won great renown as a corporation lawyer in Manhattan when he specialized in organizations (Radio Corp., International Harvester Co.) and reorganizations (N. Y. Rys. Corp.; Childs Restaurants; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Dodge- Chrysler; Goodyear Tire & Rubber). During the War as head of the meat division of the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover he controlled the "biggest packing trust in the world." In May 1929 the President picked him as one of his "new patriots" who would sacrifice a $100,000 per year private practice for a $10,000 per year Federal...
...Lecture Room at eleven this morning and hear Prof. Edgell expound the glories of French Gothic. He has been to this group of lectures on Gothic before, and he will doubtless go again, for if he should ever grow weary of the text of the lecture he will never tire of the slides which illustrate...