Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Godkin, born in Ireland, came to America in 1856 with an Irishman's love for democracy and an Irishman's will to secure it. As editor of the "Nation" and the "Evening Post" he maintained a tireless attack upon Tammany and base politics in general. When President Eliot introduced Lord Bryce in 1903, he said, "These lectures upon government and civic duty are in remembrance of a man who gave his life to the public through the medium of the press . . . Mr. Godkin was a man of remarkable vigor and great candor, and unremitting devotion to lofty ideals of public...
...career they simply sold out. If Critic Brooks were still interested in literary careers that are still in process of petering out, he might well pick Phil Stong's as a glittering example. Author Stong's first published novel, State Fair (TIME, May 9, 1932), roused the tireless hopes of many a novel-addict, seemed to herald the coming of a genuine U. S. writer. But thereafter, in shoddy book after book, Author Stong showed where his heart was and where his treasure lay. By last week no intelligent reader had to be told that Phil Stong...
...School men know that Dean Pound, 65, is one of the ranking U. S. authorities on jurisprudence, a tireless legal reformer who has long campaigned to simplify and de-emotionalize legal processes, adapt English common law to 20th Century U. S. conditions. His most famed dictum: "The law must be stable but cannot stand still...
...wheat importing areas of the earth need more grain than they have bought in years, Canada alone can supply them. So for once it looked as if a governmental stabilization scheme might turn a profit instead of the usual loss. With its enormous reservoir of wheat accumulated in tireless attempts to support the Winnipeg market, the Canadian Grain Board can almost dictate its own prices...
...first time in 1920. He won it six times thereafter, made himself indisputably the greatest player of the times, turned pro fessional in 1931. With Ellsworth Vines at home in California, Tilden last week became a U. S. Champion for the tenth time in his career, by beating tireless, brown-faced Karel Kozeluh, 0-6, 6-1. 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 in the final of the ninth National Professional Championship played in the presence of a handful of spectators on clay courts, at Flatbush...