Word: thanklessly
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Willy-nilly, M. Painleve will be forced to find some 10,000,000 francs a day to keep the French Army in Morocco at its post during the winter-a thankless task. And War Minister Daladier is already faced with the highly delicate situations in Syria (see below...
...Bill") Donovan, assistant to the Attorney General, and Mrs. Willebrandt. The three are substantially one in purpose. It is supposed to have been Mr. Donovan, a former Army officer of the same type as Mr. Andrews, who induced Mr. Andrews to give up a lucrative civil job for a thankless political...
...concierge closed the door on the unfortunate reporters. So thankless was the task of the omnipresent press when it bore the news to Mr. Hughes that his resignation as Secretary of State had been accepted; to Mr. Kellogg that he had been named to succeed to that post...
...James H. Breasted, in the spot-light for his thankless task of peace-making in the TutankhAmen controversy, has published through the New York Historical Society a bulletin on an Egyptian papyrus of 1600 B. C., owned by the Society, the oldest scientific book in America. The roll is over 15 feet long, 13 inches high, and written on both sides. It deals with the medical and surgical practice of the Egyptians. The author was not a quack or magician, but a serious medical scholar. The deciphering of the papyrus by Dr. Breasted was made doubly difficult by technical terminology...
...offered it one of hypocrisy. He has sailed many months, he has sailed many weeks over uncharted seas of hypothesis on a search for the Snark of serious student opinion, and lo! it is only a Boojum. He may well be excused if he decides that his is a thankless task, and determines that the student should be taught rather than educated...