Word: tires
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although Eleo Sears is the Grand Old Girl of squash, she can still tire out the average youngster. One morning last week, when she had no match scheduled, she played nine straight games with hard-hitting, 20-year-old Hope Knowles (who later won the tournament). Five games is enough to wind most women squash players, but Eleo said she was not even warmed...
...Rubber is No. 2 U. S. tiremaker (No. 1, Goodyear). Its President Francis Breese Davis Jr. wants to expand without increasing the total U. S. tire production facilities. Fisk will give him a first-rate trade name, a going concern with a best-selling tire (Safti-Flight), plus New England tire plants that U. S. Rubber lacks. Also important, the deal will give U. S. Rubber valuable Fisk tire patents...
Many bands either drag when they try it, or think that the nervous excitement resulting from the "stiff" drive style is better. Goodman used to think so, and things like "Sing, Sing, Sing" resulted. But people soon tire of the constant pound of the style and grow sick of the dearth of ideas in the music. So Goodman is trying to shift his band to the other style. Whether he will succeed is a moot question...
...plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...
Bill Cunningham of the Post: "Harvard, 14 to 7. Yale's been slugged around all season with a tough schedule. They'll put up a great fight in the first half, then probably tire. After that the Elis won't be able to do much more than pass and pray. Harvard has much better running hacks; but it should be a hell of a game of tactics...