Word: relentlessness
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...will disagree as to what should be thus disposed of. Some would eliminate all government, others, all taxes; down in New Jersey they are trying to limit the limitations imposed by the nineteenth amendment. Still others confine their efforts to the suppression of lumps in mashed potato and the "relentless elimination of cores from baked apples...
This tentative plan, for it has not yet become a law, has much to recommend it. We can all think of a residence district which some ten years ago was considered exclusive--some would have called it "high-brow". And then--the relentless march of fruit stores and tailor shops and lunch rooms, not to mention the red-front grocery. The "people of quality" fied. There followed a rapid decline in property value and a loss of much money. In the end, the locality was not good for much of anything...
...there be those who are distinctly "fed up" with "Main Street" and the like, they will appreciate the article in the current "Bookman" in which Archibald Marshall disposes briefly but effectively of the relentless realists...
Although in such cases, only too often the expended effort will be found not worth while, still there is a need for such relentless search of the dust-covered librettos of the past; for there in many cases will be found music and plots of a very high order that will give pleasure to a modern audience...
...determined to cast off these chains as well. She likes to think that she is the equal of Man in every way; but one suspects that deep down in her heart she is not quite sure. Perhaps that is why she is so dogmatic about it and so relentless in her pursuit of the outward signs. Having claimed so much, the honor and self-respect of the sex demand that it refuse everything in the remotest degree resembling a "favor", lest it be construed as an acknowledgement of weakness...