Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring the boxing tournament was the final round of the last bout, when W. C. Brister 1GB and Samuel Zemurray 1GB, both clever boxers of the unlimited class, let go with everything they could muster. But with relentless punches, Zemurray battered his opponent, who had already had one bout that evening, to gain a well earned decision. The only technical knockout came when E. C. Ihrig 1L, who is also well-known as a wrestler, beat down B. C. McDonald...
Since the days of the Armistice the French have employed a consistently anti-German policy with all the suavity and relentless hatred of the best characters of Mr. Sax Rohmer's thrillers. In the Treaty of Versailles the forces of the Tri-color marched rough-shod over the prostrate enemy, saddling her with fascinating but utterly fantastic reparations, sinking her fleet and permanently crippling her army, and stripping her of her colonies. Not content with that, an army of occupation was placed in the Ruhr to force the payment of the national debt. As late as 1931 the old spirit...
Maryland suddenly awoke to a three-day bank moratorium as the result of relentless runs. Outlook was for extension beyond its initial period...
...first Jew on the Supreme Court. Organized Labor is still grateful to him for his efforts to exclude unions from the anti-trust laws He led the fight that ended only when Michigan's wealthy Truman Newberry resigned from the Senate seat he was accused of buying. His relentless investigation of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases finally put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars. He presided over the 103 ballots cast by warring Democrats in Madison Square Garden in 1924, presided again last June at Chicago. After the oil investigation had made him a headliner, Washington...
...shoulders, round, red face, high intellectual forehead, nose slightly turned up, brownish moustache, and short, stubby beard, he looked more at first glance like a provincial grocer than a leader of men." Later when the Agent knew Lenin better, he was impressed by the man's will-power, his relentless determination, his lack of emotion. Lockhart found that Lenin was not to be moved by any appeal to his vanity. Trotsky seemed to be the very antithesis of the leader for: "Trotsky's vanity could be played upon with some success...