Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powerful influence of Lenin's widow. Hence it is generally believed that Trotzky is now seeking the little Caucasus resort of Kislovodsk "for his health" in good earnest. He is reported to seem weary and to be aging rapidly- he who created the Red Army with the tireless fury of a demon...
...eager, never did get a man and made her exit as a faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub. Tireless, generous Maggie at last gave birth-to a mortal cancer. Victor fended off decrepitude with cold plunges and Lily's listless adulation, but the Wilmington debutantes thought him more and more an old foolish, with his hoary jokes and palsied, piddling gallantry...
...ever there were a case which justified drastic action by Lucy Stoners, it is that of the false masculine labelling in degrees conferred on women. After four years spent in tireless pursuit of an education, the sweet girl graduate proves to have done mere man's work, instead of getting herself ready for the great jumping-off place of marriage. There is nothing distinctive about it--for even cap and gown are similar to those worn...
...then to Menlo Park, later to Orange, N.J., where his home and large factories now are. Outside "the old man's" office, a placard advises visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might his motto be the one which is the heritage of the Princes of Wales-"Ich dien" (I serve...
Every Government department has its mimeograph machines. Tireless, they serve many purposes?the issuance of memoranda to employes, for example. They are used in the manufacture of official information which is sent, postage free, to the 2,310 newspapers of the country...