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Word: tireless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Literature, widely considered the foremost of its kind in the U. S. More than 20,000 constant readers depend on it to guide their tastes in books. Miss Loveman makes no speeches, marches in no parades, is seldom mentioned on the radio. She gets out The Saturday Review. Accurate, tireless, tactful, intelligent she is a serene, important, almost indispensable character in the book of literary life. In honor of good deeds done quietly she was given the first copy of Claire Ambler. Her book was autographed by F. N. Doubleday, George Doran, Booth Tarkington. Eminent speechmaking critics drew succeeding copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First Reader | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...history and there are dark reasons why they may become so again. Of the 98 expelled, last week, three rank as at least second string great men in Russia: 1) Christian Rakovsky, recently recalled as Ambassador to France at the request of that nation, which feared him as a tireless fomenter of "The Revolution of the World Proletariat"; 2) Karl Radek, probably the most brilliant publicist of the third international (bureau for world Communist propaganda); 3) Lev Borisovitch Kemenev, onetime holder of numerous offices approximating "cabinet rank" in the Soviet Government. That these men - and Zinoviev and Trotsky - have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Political Execution | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

LORELEI LEE--She loves it, just loves it. Her ends are questionable but her goal is very definite. Gets all the breaks--and keeps them. Penalizes for everything, including holding. Takes no time out and is a tireless worker. Starts before the whistle and quits only when the game is over or up. Will tackle practically anything. All she asks is an open field and no interference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/22/1927 | See Source »

Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Secondary British Delegate, 1924 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award, tireless champion of the League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Cruiser Crux | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Josiah Charles Stamp: A statistician, by whom rare services to his own government and to the Reparations Commission have been rendered through sage advice and a tireless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED THIS MORNING | 6/23/1927 | See Source »

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