Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time & again Peru's Congress has hinted to the President that, since he was not killed, he ought to commute the death sentence. But President Sanchez Cerro is as mentally relentless as he is physically robust and tough. Congress, knowing this, has tried to wheedle him by the flattery of promoting him in military rank. President Sanchez Cerro was unmoved. Lounging at home in a $150 silk bathrobe he let Jose Melgar sit in jail...
Setting a high stroke and keeping a relentless pace throughout the entire race the Kent School oarsmen defeated the Harvard lightweights on April 6 with about a length advantage, while the second 150-pound crew decisively outrowed the Kent seconds...
...thousand dollar prize and a trip to Europe if only to get her mother, a thorough meanie, out of the house to make way for Dudley's affianced, Christine. If she does win, however, she loses her beloved Robert and is doomed to a career abroad, dogged by her relentless mother. Dudley cavorts in the midst of all this in a galaxy of slamming doors, back slappings, protest meetings, silver cup awards, and fruitless "touches" for amounts varying from five dollars to five thousand...
Part of the cultural value of the House plan is that by removing all physical limitations on the student it gives him every chance to concentrate on getting an education. Making provision for the eternal and relentless hunger which traditionally overcomes the undergraduate about midnight will remove the last barrier which separates a man from having every possible opportunity for tranquil study...
...York papers (Sun, Globe, World), steeped himself in New York politics, contributed to magazines. In 1929 for a year he was acting managing editor of Outlook, is still an associate editor. His other books: Alfred E. Smith : A Critical Study (1927), Big Frogs (1928), Industrial Explorers (1928). A relentless researcher, he has fleshed out the earlier Roosevelt admirably but his penchant for politics has somewhat blurred the man in the White House and after. There are few scenes and little of the colorful personality that made T. R. so dear to the public. Through Biographer Pringle you hear Roosevelt more...