Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Combining great foresight with tireless devotion to the course he saw necessary, Count Camillo Benso Cavour, after helping to bring about the institution of constitutional government in Italy in 1848, worked incessantly and successfully to make this government run smoothly from the beginning. This story of Cavour's accomplishments was told by Mario Einaudi, government instructor, yesterday, in the second of a series of lectures based on Cavour and his contributions to constitutional government in Italy...
Science has given housewives the mechanical dishwasher, the tireless cooker, the cherry stoner, the self-agitating cocktail shaker, the cast-iron pea sheller. but not until last month did U. S. housewives have a machine to make cream...
...dollar and the mark a mark. Today, what with the sum total of the world's defaults, devaluations, regulations, restrictions, registrations, quotas, permits, impounded balances, standstill agreements, stabilization funds or the lack of them, money-changing is a nightmare. Foreign exchange traders are probably the coolest, shrewdest, most tireless and nimble-witted crew in the world, but the Paris correspondent of the New York Times last week declared: "The extraordinarily complicated character of the present situation seems to have discouraged even the most hardened speculators...
...that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed by him are grown in the "Soviet Florida" on the Black Sea. Tireless in his old age, he works now on tobacco to be grown on the lower Volga...
...Berlin tireless Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, found time to order the German Post Office to print an issue of propaganda stamps urging return of the Saar to Germany and put them on sale forthwith. To give the League Council pause when it meets next month, Dr. Goebbels announced fantastic plans to cover "25 square miles" with a stupendous mass meeting of Germans and Saar citizens whom he planned to bring in innumerable special trains to Coblenz...