Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Queen Caroline was a tireless walker, card player, controversialist. She appreciated Dean Swift, she corresponded with the Philosopher Leibniz, she promoted the great Berkeley to his Irish bishopric. Her courage was not fully known until she was on her death bed, when the King learned what she had desperately kept secret from him: that she had suffered for years from a painful umbilical rupture. An operation brought on gangrene. Quennell's re-creation of these full-blooded, uncomfortable people is nowhere more penetrating than in his account of the Queen's noble and terrible last days, during which...
Emperor. Only 49, a small, keen-eyed, fast-thinking, tireless, eloquent Yankee, Vannevar ("Van") Bush year ago stepped into the presidential shoes of Dr. John Campbell Merriam (who is officially retired but continues his own researches in paleontology). Dr. Bush takes his new job in his stride. Besides learning the ropes of the Carnegie Institution, he finds time to chairman the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the National Academy of Sciences' division of engineering. Besides, he loves symphonies, himself flutes, hunts, sails, quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard. In New Hampshire he has a farm where...