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Word: relentlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relentless march to the championship, McGill was stopped only by Toronto, 3 to 2. It established the season's high scoring record with 15 goals and 23 assists against hapless Montreal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Seek League Crowns As McGill Takes Hockey Title | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

With such implacable people Playwright Hellman has dealt implacably, exerting against them a moral pressure to match their own immoral strength. Both the Hubbards and their playwright-inquisitor work at a pitch too relentless for real life. But it is the special nature of the theatre to raise emotions to higher power, somewhat simplifying, somewhat exaggerating, but tremendously intensifying. Playwright Hellman makes her plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Finally, I should like to protest the relentless definition of Professor Feild as the most successful teacher of fine arts. Anyone familiar with the record of Harvard's department in producing capable graduates would stop to consider. This becomes difficult when people are impatient to "undertake an investigation of the complete fine arts setup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...happy faculty of satisfying both its admirers and detractors. Its admirers can always turn to it with the sure knowledge that they can recapture the exaltation of those years. Its detractors can rest assured that it will help many others, as it has helped us, on the path toward relentless isolationism. C. Avery Dulles '40 David Simboli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

...second period was fast but scoreless, with only the fine work of Dave Mitell in the Crimson goal preventing a relentless Trojan attack from succeeding. In the third canto a succession of power plays proved the visitors' final undoing, when their defense was unable to check back in time to prevent four Crimson successful jumps, one by Winslow and the rest by Harding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET DOWNS WESTERN TROJANS 6-2; FESLERMEN OVERCOME TERRIERS 50-37 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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