Word: tiring
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...Brown 3 to 0, while the Harvard hockey players slumped badly in their last game with Princeton last Saturday after defeated two crack Canadian teams from Queens and McGill Universities. The Middle West sextet has brought along only three spares, so the Crimson policy will probably be to tire out the opponents with one fresh line after another...
Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett coined commercial reward for having turned cinemactor, signed a contract to broadcast 13 Monday evenings for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. His fee: $4,000 a week, beginning...
...just about been settled that football was starting to decline. The Golden Decade of exploitation was over, the public was beginning to tire of the spectacle, and the depression was forcing others to lose an interest. Several universities had made efforts to de-emphasize the sport and several others had taken drastic stops to lessen professionalism. Several years ago Iowa had been forced out of the Western Conference, Navy had broken with Army because of the latter's unfair eligibility stand, and Columbia had given loud publicity to its efforts to lesson the pressure on football by starting an athletic...
...country road when he came upon a stalled car. A taxi driver once blocked Prince Nicholas' car in Bucharest and Prince Nicholas swiftly kicked him in the pit of the stomach (TIME, April 7, 1930), but this was different. Standing by the car (which had a punctured tire) was a plump, dark-eyed, deep-dimpled Rumanian beauty. Prince Nicholas stopped, descended, bowed and offered to drive the beauty back to Bucharest...
...than most. The artists' colony at Storr's Point was isolated, inaccessible except through one gate which was kept locked. When middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts. By the time you have struggled after Inspector Andrews through tortuous experiments to his triumphant conclusion you will have snapped...