Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless Americans breed with more science and less abandon, declared tireless Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty), five generations from now they will be "the stupidest great-great-grandchildren of the stupidest great-grandchildren of the stupidest grandchildren of the stupidest children of parents now living...
Divorced. Milton Berle, 39, radio's tireless teller of famed old jokes; by Blond Beauty Joyce Mathews, 27; after six years, one child (adopted); in Reno...
...week's end, a tireless friend of Greece and U.S. Ambassador in Athens since 1944 stepped into one of the planes for a quick trip to Washington. Scholarly Lincoln MacVeagh had long ago traced on the flyleaf of his well-thumbed copy of Leninism, Joseph Stalin's treatise for revolutionaries, the dictum: "It is an essential task of a victorious revolution in one country to develop and support revolution in others." MacVeagh, who speaks ancient Greek with the fluency of a contemporary of Aristides, was not really surprised by anything he had seen in Greece...
...took time to install his version of the T formation. He lacked a quarterback, his ends were too light, center was weak and his reserves were below par. Yet with tireless effort, he worked throughout the Spring and early fall to make this team what it is today...
Died. Richard Le Gallienne, 81, top-ranking translator of romantic French verse, tireless romantic poet (Lonely Dancer, The Junk-Man and Other Poems'), father of Actress Eva Le Gallienne in Mentone, France...