Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mess, where both Japanese and Western food is served, he often orders ham & eggs, washes them down with tea at a total cost of one yen (50? at par, now about 7?). Younger officers knock off about 4 o'clock for tennis or other sports. Not so the tireless oldsters and Lieut.-General Araki who is 55. He always works until 6, then goes to his club or directly home to a pleasant villa with a formal Japanese garden. On the walls hang Japanese paintings, many "not so good ones" done by brother officers. Absorbed in his great mission...
...nervously with his baton. Considerable excitement was aroused at his Manhattan debut fortnight ago when he played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, of which San Francisco is tired but which Manhattan seldom hears now since Toscanini is not attracted to the pessimistic Russian's music. The tireless drilling that Toscanini gives his orchestra made Dobrowen's dramatic Tchaikovsky perform-ance possible. Rehearsals bore Dobrowen. Audiences excite him. He likes to wait for the inspiration of the moment, which rarely counts when an orchestra is ragged...
...services to the University and to education President Lowell has earned the highest possible esteem. Harvard men cannot dissociate from his name the lasting relationships of their education. Respect for him must go farther than a grateful acknowledgment of the progress of the University under his tireless guidance. A generation and more of Harvard men hold or President Lowell an affection that will endure long after the more transitory elements of the University as it is have dropped from mind. Only those men who develop a natural will to serve and ability to lead will be able even in small...
...favorite role of "Empire Salesman," H. R. H. then opened at Copenhagen the largest British fair ever held among Danes. From London Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, tireless champion of a tariff wall around the Empire, sniped at the Empire Salesman, charged flatly that his Danish trip is "ill advised...
...arbitrary change, Paul von Hindenburg took his place last week in a class with Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini. Vital fact: The 84-year-old President and his angelic Chancellor are well known to be guided in their dictatorial steps by sly but patriotic Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher, tireless in his intrigues to restore the goose-step unity and military might of Imperial Germany...