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Word: tireless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt, tireless globetrotter, was the guest who mattered in England last week. "She is welcome not only for the great name she bears," observed the London News Chronicle, speaking for a great many people, "but for her own endearing qualities of heart and mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...became Studebaker's vice president in charge of sales, helped reorganize the company when it went broke in 1933. He has been president since 1935. Married, he has five sons, two daughters. A tireless, hard driver, he is a non-smoker and a teetotaler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Noah | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Made statuesque by her 30 added pounds and sporting as always a great white gardenia in her glossy hair, Billie took her homage like a queen. Her voice, a petulant, sex-edged moan, was stronger than ever although she had done no singing at the reformatory. Seemingly tireless and with only three days of rehearsal behind her, she sang 32 numbers, mostly cultist favorites like Billie's Blues, All of Me, Fine and Mellow, and the throat-tightening Strange Fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Life | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Died. Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren, 55, Stars & Stripes cartoonist of World War I, whose tireless gouging at MPs, topkicks, cooties and second looies made him the comic favorite of the A.E.F.'s doughboys; of a liver ailment; in Upper Darby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Divorced. By Mignon Good Eberhart, 48, tireless producer of best-selling whodunits (26 in 18 years): second husband John Prince Hazen Perry, 65, Manhattan construction executive; after 14 months of marriage, no children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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