Word: tiring
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Sixth Game. At Lancaster, Pa., a tire blew out on an automobile in which three men were driving to St. Louis to see the remainder of the World Series. The automobile swerved across the road, landed on the railroad tracks ahead of the train on which the St. Louis team was returning from Philadelphia. A man in the signal tower saw the wreck, switched the train onto a clear track, then shunted it back without delay or mishap...
...greater part of the book deals with what Mr. Flynn thinks are corporate practices. Such famed cases are cited as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad scandals of 1925, the St. Louis & San Francisco revelations of 1913, the Good year Tire & Rubber reorganization in 1921. Modern examples are the Bethlehem bonus system, the Loft, Inc. management troubles in 1930, the Bank of United States failure and the fall of Banker Rogers Caldwell. Cyrus Stephen Eaton's recently shaken corporate pyra mid is also discussed adversely...
...northern Gothic. A good illustration was erected last year on the Stockholm waterfront. Massive, of polished rose granite, it shows little influence on Milles by his teacher Rodin. Two figures, a merman and his mermaid, intertwine in funny fat folds. She is doting; he, looking like the pneumatic Michelin Tire man ("Bibendum"), is highly amused...
...girl who has given up many a marrying chance to be the town doctor's mistress watches him gradually tire...
...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...