Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inactive, nominal Commander-in-Chief of the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army which bore the brunt of Japanese onslaughts against Shanghai. †Active, tireless Commander of the 19th. **Chinese Shanghai Chief of Police...
...agent to a Federal Reserve Bank or the U. S. Assay office. (Avaricious U. S. citizens can, of course, continue to get eagles from any bank?see P-15-) Meanwhile, Bombay banks continued to send gold to London, boosted English bullion reserves over native protests. And, more important, the tireless quest for virgin gold kept on. The best spot heralded last week was in the cold northeast of Sweden where 40 rich claims await development near the Boliden mine, which last year produced twelve tons ($7,000,000) of gold. Said Count Ehrinsvard, Swedish Ambassador to Paris, "The importance...
Confronted with his tireless fertility, acathetic criticism seems simply beside the point. In regard to the quality of his work, it is superfluous to emphasize a superficiality which Wallace would himself be the last to deny. These qualities which he did possess he possessed superlatively and they were both genial and amusing. Never designed to be remembered, his literary work will at least be forgotten with affection and regret...
...Filbert's life has been given up to details-a tireless march down endless columns of Arabic numerals. Row after row of digits, decimals, averages, percentages-he makes them talk, tells their secrets only to Steel's directors...
...Less than three years from the day Mr. Harkness first suggested his gift for the Houses all seven of them were in full operation. For such a result we are indebted to the skill, the devotion and the tireless energy of the architects and the officers of the University who have taken part in the work. Save for the old Russell Hall--a part of Adams House, which Mr. Harkness proposed should be torn down and rebuilt at his expense--the Houses were completed and occupied at the opening the term this autumn. Residence in them has been voluntary...