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Word: tireless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the cynical suspicions yet tireless hopes of veteran drama critics, the U. S. waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Twist | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...hardy peasants are well-adapted to this type of sport; many of them work all day and can train for running only at night. The long northern winters cause would-be runners to take up long-distance skiing for conditioning, a type of training which has produced many a tireless distance runner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finn Stand Against Russia Is Typical Of Traditional Attitude Toward Sports | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

Subsidiary reasons: A Sea Island Lady is 964 pages long and weighs 2 Ibs. 10½ oz. It is written in that tireless, fluescent, infallibly platitudinous language which commonly passes for "literature," and in whose terms Joyce, in Ulysses, created Gerty MacDowell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ladies'-Book | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...basis of past performances Burwell, the smooth-running, tireless Junior, is number one man. But Tuttle and Clark are not far behind; Tuttle, kept out of track last year by illness, has been coming ahead fast and may well push Burwell today...

Author: By Spencer Kiaw, | Title: HARRIERS RUN IN TRIANGULAR MEET | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...lean and leathery great-grandson, Lieut. Colonel Francis Scott Key-Smith, who hyphenates his name "because there are so darn many Smiths." Pleased was he that a painting of his ancestor, peering through dawn's early light, was unveiled in Fort McHenry by Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, the tireless patriot who in 1931 helped make The Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as the actual national anthem. But so ill-pleased was he by the political overtones of an address by Presidential Aspirant Paul V. McNutt that he slipped quietly off the platform, went home before the celebrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anthem's Anniversary | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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