Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back in England again he devoted himself more assiduously to his remaining ambition-to win the Derby horse race which his ancestor had established, now 147 years ago. The race had not been won by a member of his own family since 1787, when the 12th Earl secured the distinction...
"Though Joffe came of a bourgeois family, he broke body and soul with the old ideals and devoted himself wholly to the cause of the proletariat. At the end of an overburdened physical suffering, he yielded to a temporary depression, but I ask you, comrades, to imitate him not in...
The final period in his life was devoted to consolidating the revolution. He was first entrusted with the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, being later succeeded there by Leon Trotsky. He then was appointed first Soviet Ambassador to Berlin, whence twelve years before he had been expelled. His activities in...
Significance. (From the book) "I am convinced that an entirely new chapter is here opening up in both theory and business life. After more than a century devoted to the elaboration . . . and the technique of banking and commercial credit, designed to fit the industrial revolution, we now stand on the...
The University hockey squad will take to the ice this afternoon at the Boston Arena in their first practice of the winter season. The past week has been devoted to running and limbering up exercises on Soldiers Field, and Coach Joseph Stubbs '20 is now ready to send his charges...