Word: tirelessly
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...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...
...loudspeaker regularly bade the crowd to "Hurrah for Stalin." But all quite naturally turned their faces up toward him. No other procession I ever saw had the force, impact or sheer splendor of that ragged million. It was Russia that had passed, in the shape of her patient, pliant, tireless people...
Died. Irving Fisher, 80, bearded Yale professor of political economy and prolific writer on economics; in Manhattan. A tireless theorist on such varied subjects as health, education, prohibition, and the mastication of food, he spent $100,000 (partly from his invention of the rotary filing system) campaigning to standardize the dollar and to force banks to keep a 100% cash balance for all funds liable to transfer by check...