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Word: tireless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these resplendent citizens adopted a personal motto what better one than the famous "Ich dien" of German origin? Today, even at ninety, Dr. Eliot lives to serve, as of yore. Even as of yore, too, he does serve, knowing whereof he speaks, rich in information, constructive in suggestion, tireless in new vision. By right of service proved he belongs to the public whom he leads, even as he is the most priceless living possession of Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Grand Old Man | 2/6/1924 | See Source »

...farm was lovely Arlette, whom the village thought half-demented -Scevola had saved her body from the massacre that exterminated her Royalist parents, but the memory of the shrieks and the blood of that massacre still walked like a ghost through her mind. Her aunt, the upright, deliberate, tireless Catherine, asserted her a doomed object of God's particular wrath, a fatal woman, not for any man's arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother of the Coast-- | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

When the Wrigley Chewing-gum Company can declare a fifty million dollar stock melon as it did two days ago, it is time for the tireless foreigner who delights in criticising America to sit up and take notice. The national propensity for ice-water, the erection of enormous buildings, and the proverbial love of the dollar are all designated as "typically American," but the gum-chewing habit is even more "typical". And the Chicago company's action will certainly cause statistic-hunters to chortle with glee at this unexpected windfall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSAL EXERCISE | 11/15/1923 | See Source »

...Executive Mansion hummed as usual with the tireless labors of its occupants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Oct. 29, 1923 | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

Because of the proposed heavy burden of taxation, Die Rote Fahne (Red Flag), Berlin Communist daily, published a proclamation: " We are the organized power, but we can conquer only when every Communist is filled with sacred, tireless zeal for the revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Finance | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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