Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final tally, it must be admitted that into his book Professor Matthiessen has distilled the essence of all previous criticism of Eliot. Sometimes the distillation is effected by contradictions, of opponents, sometimes by amplifications of small hints in other writers, but always it is undertaken by a relentless and remorseless analyst, who is also a passionate advocate arguing as soberly as is humanly possible the importance of his experiment, which is in itself a bold undertaking, since few enterprises are so arduous and thankless as criticism of a contemporary
Next night young Democrats and the nation heard John's father read a "non- political" speech over the radio from Washington. "Facts are relentless," throbbed the warm, familiar voice of the President. "We must adjust our ideas to the facts of today. ... To the American youth of all parties I submit a message of confidence-unite and challenge. Rules are not necessarily sacred-principles are. The methods of the old order are not, as some would have you believe, above the challenge of youth...
...send Joan to prison. She is young and besides she is very pretty. I am not going to ask a prison sentence, merely a fine on principle." The principle had its living, vibrant incarnation in Miss Warner's accuser, M. Fernand Boverat, 37, striped-trousered, bespectacled, correct, relentless...
GEORGE SARTON: Historian of science and of learning, a scholar whose relentless toil and inspired vision are creating a new academic discipline...
...called upon, in the relentless march of time, to add to the roll of their departed associates the name...