Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this to be accomplished? By strictest economy, by the tireless picking and pecking of Herbert Mayhew Lord, director of the budget. Arose, therefore, General Lord, hoarder of pennies, good storyteller. Said he: "Are we disturbed? Well, perhaps disturbed, but not discouraged. Down, but not out. We accept the challenge. . . . Expenditure will be kept inside revenue, no matter what the decrease in revenue may be." General Lord stared the deficit in the face, recalled the black days of 1919: "In certain localities it is the custom to refer to the year of the big snow or the great flood. ... I think...
...insistently that it has become platitudinous, that the present age is an age of questions. As in all platitudes there is at least a foundation of truth in this remark. The scientific spirit which has pervaded the western world for the last century and more with its tireless exploration of the unknown has become the basic element in modern intellectual life...
...with the Soviet's most famed female diplomat, Mme. Alexandra M. Kollontai, who had come from her post as Ministress to Norway especially to attend Queen Thuraya. Their conversation was presumably "advanced," for Mme. Kollontai is an avowed, die-hard exponent of free love, while Her Majesty, a tireless educator, is easily the most emancipated woman in backward Afghanistan. Both these sagacious ladies paid small heed to President Kalinin, whom ignorant peasants affectionately call the "Little Father," as they once did the Tsar. The Queen and the Ministress know that Comrade Kalinin is but a willing and placid figurehead...
Over all these flighty, inconsequential doings Excommunicator Cardinal Dubois brooded with troubled dignity last week. He is a prelate in high favor with the rich Anglo-U. S. Catholics of Paris, and he won the general gratitude of Frenchmen during the War by tireless organizing of efficient charities. As a matter of personal taste and sympathy Cardinal Dubois is known to have a penchant for the Royalists, among whom he has numerous close friends. As Cardinal and Archbishop, however, his duty was clear, last week, and he obeyed the Pope's orders to excommunicate with promptness and despatch...
...grey harbor also Hudson sailed; and here, after spending a winter on its frozen shore, he stayed to watch his ship, manned by a mutiny, putting back for England, leaving him and two companions to drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching the departure of his crew with courage, despair and fury...