Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer slump seemed to be flattening out. Best buying was in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Said D. & B.: ''No small part of the maintenance during the last few weeks of the headway made during the spring and summer months is attributable directly to the relentless enterprise of the NRA. . . . There has been no abatement in the rise of employment." Also released last week were figures on the output of two important consumer goods: U. S. factories in August produced 236,400 automobiles and trucks-an unseasonal increase of 3,300 over July...
...replace the King James Version on the sitting-room table of the great American Boor. But those who agree with the conclusions the author has reached will feel an impulse to burst into song and shout, while even Mr. Laski's conscious opponents cannot avoid being impressed by the relentless argument he builds up, point by point, with more than his usual power of analysis and expression...
Fighting all the way, the government of square-jawed little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss continued to oppose the relentless growth of Hitlerism in Austria last week. Fortnight ago came that decree so familiar to the last years of republican Germany: a ban on the wearing of political uniforms. Austrian Nazis promptly rushed to second-hand clothing shops and bought up all the old silk hats in sight, on the assumption that there could be no law against the wearing of a Cylinder, emblem of bourgeois respectability. For a few happy hours Viennese Nazis flaunted battered toppers above their sport suits until...
...along with her glove, offends her Broadway pride, but persuades her to marry him, contrary to parental ambitions. Some months later, he leaves his poor but pregnant wife to seek, aid from home; his father refuses to give in, and he commits suicide. The child is abducted by the relentless grandparent. The expected meeting with his mother takes place in a French house of ill-repute, during the war, where her clean life has finally rewarded her with the job of madame. The worldly-wise young soldier reforms, when he learns that it is his mother who has confessed...
From the moment he took office President Roosevelt realized that he was in a relentless race against the sun on farm relief. His purpose was to outsprint nature to planting time. In his special farm message last month he warned Congress that "if we wait for another month or six weeks the effect on the prices of this year's crops will be wholly lost." Infected with his sporting spirit, the House passed his bill with blind speed. But the Senate sets itself above sun and seasons. Its refusal to compete with nature last week threatened to wreck...