Word: relentlessness
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...University defence was strong, but it could not cope with the clashing, powerful, relentless attack shown by the Orange and Black, in which speedy individual play was combined with superb team-work and more accurate shooting than has been displayed by any team so far encountered by Coach Claflin's men. Easily the best team faced this year by the Crimson skaters, Princeton scored a well-earned victory...
Tonight at the Union the University steps from behind registration blanks, study cards and other impersonal but relentless emblems of officialdom to give a hearty welcome to its new members as Harvard men. Business hours are over the shutters are up, and the Class of 1926, after marching and counter-marching across the Yard in open order all day as individuals, can assemble and look itself in the face for the first time as a class, one of the largest in the history of the College...
...quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they "go after belles-lettres," do the Western young folk, but an East...
Those who go down to Grand street to see the final production of the season at the Neighborhood Playhouse, which had its first showing last night, will find a play so vigorous, so relentless in its determination to picture life, that they are almost certain either to have a positive opinion about it, one way or another. They are not likely to leave it lukewarm...
...hostilities came to an end along the far stretched "fronts". The guns stopped their clamour then; machine guns ceased their reaping; men no longer winced to the shrilling scream of the close-coming shell; there came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market for tales of the grim days of 'seventeen-'eighteen. Unless indeed the author have something startling, something sensational, something preening itself on what...