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Word: tireless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home, meanwhile, enterprising traders made the most of the incident -and furnished economically backward Yemen a perfect illustration of the law of supply & demand. While the shooting was still going on, tireless scavengers on both sides of the embattled border had diligently collected the bullets from the bullet-riddled countryside; on the local market, the price of lead was down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Supply & Demand | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...brisk, tireless little woman, with a kind of Helen Hokinson figure, Minnie Guggenheimer, with a lot of help from her wealthy lawyer-husband, also finds time to keep up three or four charities, a ten-room Park Avenue apartment and a New Jersey summer estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Minnie Makes Sense | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...giving fellow Tulsans a look at Indian history. The first public show of the six-year-old Thomas Gilcrease Foundation (in the township of Black Dog, on a hill overlooking Tulsa) consisted of 170 paintings of Indians and the West, including some by Frederic Remington, Robert Henri and the tireless 19th Century documentor of Indian life, George Catlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: No Tomahawk | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven volley of one-line gags; with expert timing and tireless bounce, he also hurls his whole 6 feet and 191 dieted pounds into every act of his show. His motto is still "anything for a laugh"-and practically anything he does gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Child Wonder | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...plot is too complicated to worry much about, but there are several pleasant songs (by Harry Warren) sung with tireless bounce by Doris Day, and some mildly astringent lines about radio advertising, mostly delivered by Eve Arden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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