Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Knudsen started his tireless jaunt February i, three days after the President put him in uniform as director of Army Production. He has been to 350 plants in nearly a hundred cities and towns; he has flown 55,000 miles over the U.S.; he has talked to thousands of Americans about their work. In six swift months Knudsen has had an experience that would make any land-conscious American poet desperately envious. No poet of words, he is the kind of American who fingers shiny, greasy machines with a conscious, tactile pleasure-and because he loves machines they...
Leaving Sullivan in the 1890s, Wright rapidly evolved a style of his own, a spacious, low-slung type of building, whose simple planes and monolithic unity of design were to remain constant features of Wright houses for many years. A tireless experimenter with new materials and bold forms, he invented and evolved new structural uses for everything from concrete to plywood, built houses that challenged every conventional rule of the architect's art. By 1910, his new ideas had spread from suburban Oak Park, Ill., where he lived, to Holland and Germany, where a whole school of modern architecture...
This book, by the tireless fabricator of Men of Good Will, is not one of the series; it is a graceful little vacation-piece on the old subject of The Visiting Foreigner. This time the foreigner is no charmer of women's clubs but a likable middle-aged Frenchman, the exiled professor Albert Salsette. He gets to Manhattan in the spring of 1941, and his old friend Jules Remains shows him around. They see little of that world outside Greater New York. But as far as they go, their sharp eyes, fresh minds and Gallic talent for analysis...
Loeffler: A Pagan Poem (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Victor; 6 sides). A tireless champion of U.S. composers turns here to an adopted son: bearded, Alsatian-born Charles Martin Loeffler, the Boston Symphony's assistant concertmaster for 19 years. Loeffler's Debussylike masterpiece is played with shrewd feeling for climax...
...Roosevelt said-she was talking about Pearl Harbor-that official mistakes only reflected the people. Senator Walsh, tireless foe of smugness, spoke of the "general smugness of the American people." "In too many instances," said Connecticut's Senator Maloney, "our people are concluding that the war is won and that there is no great danger or difficulty ahead." Yes, said the New York Times's military expert Hanson Baldwin, "we are slothful with fat pride...