Goodyear

[ good-yeer ]

/ ˈgʊdˌyɪər /

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Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.

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That French President François Hollande is from the Socialist Party helps the Goodyear strikers not at all.
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Goodyear has blond bangs, a lean face, and a long, downturned mouth.
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If you want to fall in love with Los Angeles, have a meal with Roy Choi and Dana Goodyear.
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In the following year of 1871, Goodyear invented his welt shoe-sewing machine and Maddox made his epochal discovery.
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Professor Goodyear gives the title of “Meander” to that form of Swastika which bends two or more times (fig. 11).
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How far it extends in the direction contended for by Professor Goodyear, is no part of this investigation.
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When he was twenty-one Goodyear entered a rubber house in Philadelphia and began experimenting in India rubber.
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Reared in the Dominion, William Goodyear is indebted to its schools for the education he enjoyed during his boyhood and youth.
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Goodyear

/ (ˈɡʊdˌjɪə) /

noun

Charles. 1800–60, US inventor of vulcanized rubber

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