Word: thanklessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Less than six months ago they were in possession of a safe, comfortable, docile, manageable, majority of some 70 or 80 members. They are here today with followers who number considerably less than one-half of the House. . . It would be a waste of time to indulge in the thankless task of slaying a suicide. On the issue raised by this amendment [to the King's speech], judgment goes by default...
...that Osmena foresaw unprofitable struggles with Governor General Wood, and preferred to avoid a position of open leadership. At any rate, Roxas was made Speaker of the House and side by side with President Quezon of the Senate has opposed General Wood. Now he comes to Washington for the thankless task of trying to convince the Administration that the Philippines should be made independent. The political prognosticators prophesied: " Rising winds, colder, with storms...
...Tomarkin and his fellow scientists would seem to have a thankless task on their hands in striving to find means with which to prolong life and crush out sickness and disease. As human nature apparently stands at present, each person who is saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student...