Word: tiring
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...Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...Tire Trouble. John Henry Mears, theatrical producer; racing globetrotter, took off from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., in a Lockheed monoplane to beat the Graf Zeppelin's round-the-world time of 21 days. With pilot Henry J. Brown and a terrier mascot he reached Harbor Grace, N. F., tried to take off before dawn on a bumpy field, cracked up when a tire blew...
...From the deer's neck he removed the red stripe-an automobile inner tube. . . . The shot had exploded the inner tube and presumably broken the deer's neck." Investigation proved the owner of the inner tube to be a vacationer who, fortnight before, while repairing a flat tire, had been attacked by a deer, had thrown the tube in defense, landing it around the deer's neck. Other Stone Stories: An unselfish partridge, seeing the chagrin of an unsuccessful hunter upon his return home, broke its own neck, fell dead in front of the hunter...
...whiskey-tasters England's famed blenders would be unable to produce a uniformly good product year in, year out. On equally skilled men depends the fact that all vermilion dyes are uniform, that azure satins are azure. But foibles of the color-matcher's eyes, which tire quickly, make them expensive to their employers...
...trivial at first-detailed disputes over such campaign cost items as matches, banners, eye shades, cigars, meals, band music, entertainment of Wisconsin news editors at the Kohler plant. Judge Gustav Gehrz grew impatient when the State tried to make a 30? insignium labeled "KOHLER FOR GOVERNOR" into a valuable "tire cover," ruled it was no such thing. Again and again curious heads turned to the courtroom door, hoping to see Philip LaFollette march in, face his rival, give a touch of political drama to the scene. But the curious were disappointed. Shrewd, Brother Phil kept away from the trial, directed...