Word: tiringly
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...solemn test flight was conducted, with the expert counsel of General Superintendent William H. Collins, who became pigeon-conscious when launching ships for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Two dozen racing homers from the coops of Tire-Builder Frank Eisentrout were released in the dock. They flapped gladly, promptly homeward. So impressive was the demonstration that the number of christening pigeons was raised...
...Norfolk, N. Y. one Harold Green bent down to change a tire on his automobile when an arrow pierced his left ear. It had been shot by an unidentified girl archer...
...moved into an effortless paddle less than a length behind Yale & Princeton. Yale was rowing about 36 to Cornell's 28 or 29-an almost insultingly slow beat for a two-mile race. Princeton kept up a fatiguing high beat for the first mile and had begun to tire when Jimmy Burke, the Cornell coxswain, began to raise his stroke. At the mile and one-half, (here was a fraction of a second when it seemed that Cornell might lose. Wilson faltered, but Burke splashed water on his face. At the finish Cornell was two lengths ahead of Yale...
...terrific speed, but in the next set Tilden began really to unleash his serve. As Richards ran in to volley Tilden slammed drives at his feet, forced him into errors and defensive half volleys, sent him racing back to the baseline for perfect lobs. Richards was beginning to tire. He stopped running up, hung on the baseline as Tilden wanted him to. For no player except Henri Cochet is able to beat Tilden in the backcourt, and this evening Tilden was playing as he did from 1920 to 1926, when no one in the world had a chance against...
...ever been before. Mr. Eaton, whose birthplace, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, had already benefited from his financial greatness, had power and plans only one degree smaller. A potent public utilitarian, he had just begun to fashion the Second Greatest Steel Company. He had also turned to the rubber-tire business and, as greatest stockholder in the greatest rubber companies, he was about to bring order into an often chaotic industry. Furthermore, his financial plans were given a heroic cast because, through them, he felt he was bringing to the Middle West its just share of the control of American Industry...