Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...profered to him with no questions. Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated. And so it goes on,--this relentless pursuit after courses and credits, equivalent almost to dollars and cents; it goes on producing men who are some day to lead nations and peoples in the way they think best...
There are two vital objections to the relentless application of the principle of nationalism in Europe. The first is that the intermingling of peoples in southern and eastern Europe is such as to preclude any division into national communities. The second is that these local states once established will not be governed by their peaceful and illiterate peasantry, but by scheming leaders and princes who are more likely to plunge Europe again into war than to keep it at peace. The interspersion of the racial elements in Russia, Austria and the Balkans makes their separation impossible. Bulgars and Serbs, Magyars...
...first to present on this continent a masterpiece which has been seen in Denmark, Norway, Germany and England. This more than any other of Sigurjonsson's writings has made him famous as one of the younger Icelandic and, indeed, Euopean dramatists. Moreover, Professor Baker sees in this stern and relentless tragedy of the North an unusual opportunity for testing the powers of the Workshop's company of actors. He wishes also to give his students and the members of the Workshop audience an opportunity to see one of the most significant European plays of the last five years...
...known four defeats within more than twice that number of years to fall before a supposedly unimportant antagonist. Defeat after victory is always hard. Nevertheless it is inevitable. It is humiliating for great empires when little Vandal tribes tear down their ancient temples. But Caesars perish and the relentless foe creeps...
...Scales and the Sword," by Farnham Bishop, graduate student, is set in a small grocer's shop on the day of a great fire which upsets the social order of a vast city. It is the tragedy of individual blind selfishness and cupidity shattered against relentless martial...