Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, the real fighting began. A rambunctious Congressman from Brooklyn, name of Donald O'Toole, who had watched tire fight by television, cried "Swindle." Critics blamed Billy Conn for not putting up a good fight, and asked why he had been allowed in the ring without a warm-up fight...
...zoning restrictions. The house can be erected in three days by three or four nonprofessionals. Jacques's daughter Jacqueline put up the first trial model in a week with the help of three women. Then she wrote the instruction book. Said Willis: "Anyone who can change a tire can assemble a Home...
...nodded in agreement. They both knew it wouldn't and so did Vag. He knew it would be hot, damned hot, and he thought of those stifling summer afternoons when the streets would be deserted and quite and the asphalt would be wet with the curved lines of tire treads...
...street last week, came to a stop beside a filling station at the corner of Connecticut and N Streets. Swiftly the boxlike affair was unloaded. In exactly 3½ hours, nine men had turned it into a two-bedroom house, ready for occupancy. In this eye-opening way, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. put on exhibition its prefabricated house, built by its subsidiary, Wingfoot Homes...
...July 1945, William J. Bender '27, present Counsellor for Veterans, took over his job and made preparations to handle tire vast numbers of veterans who would apply for admission during what was expected to be the peak years of 1945 and 1946. With six assistant counsellors, a staff of over 60 persons, and supervision of a nursery for veterans' children, an agency for veterans' wives, and a housing office to help accommodate married veterans, in addition to the operation of the general office, the Counsellor has processed the 3,981 veterans now enrolled in the University. Over 1,200 letters...