Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspired by its sense of responsibility as a moulder of public opinion, the CRIMSON will not go to California and laugh it off. Tireless investigation has uncovered a new but reliable formula which may solve the problem. Climb Lowell House Tower and tap base bell with weather vane (unobtrusively removed from Dunster House at high noon three days before). Number of echoes indicates proper month. Using standard sextant, determine latitude and longitude. Look at watch to find time of day. Multiply sum of these results by the height in rods of new Chapel Tower. By the time this is done...
...Martin Tornov Loeffler's Evocation, composed specially for the occasion; and to Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra's enterprising manager, out of respect for whom John Davison Rockefeller Jr., a one-time Clevelander, gave $250,000. Financially the rest of the credit goes to Dudley Stuart Blossom, tireless campaigner who with his wife gave some $900,000; and to President John Long Severance of the Musical Arts Association who gave $2,500,000 of his oil & steel fortune, and for whose wife, the late Elizabeth DeWitt Severance, the building has been called Severance Hall...
...four-course system by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor, and must stand high in these; 3) increase in size and beauty of the physical plant and strengthening of the faculty. But, withal, President Hibben has been most notable for his general and tireless insistence on the intellectual side of the University...
...Professor Ewing was 64 Christmas Day. He is a tireless worker, now more important in medicine, especially in the cancer field, than ever before. During the years when he was writing Neoplastic Diseases, he worked holidays, nights and weekends. And all the time he was racked by paroxysms of facial neuralgia...
...competitive sports; tactful in the handling of men and opposing forces; scientifically resourceful and imaginative; optimistic always; idealistic in his belief in men; indulgent to a fault; having an unusual sense of fairness; scientifically aggressive and persistent; one who welcomes and encourages new avenues of approach to problems; a tireless worker; a severe but constructive critic; discriminating in his estimate of scientific contributions; a stimulating teacher; a forceful lecturer; an indefatigable contributor to scientific movements; a scholar; beloved by students and colleagues; a physician of the highest ideals...