Word: tiringly
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Diplomats and strategists do not tire of assuring us that the war, which was begun on the Marne and the Somme, in the Argonne and at Verdun, is being fought out on the Ruhr and the Weser, in Essen and Geisenkirchen. The situation is not unlike that in early 1917, except that now it is England that is proposing the formula of "peace without victory...
...German nation has gained some peace of mind by refusing to believe what it did not wish to believe. Since January of this year Germany has thought that England was disgusted with her allies and that by playing possum for a time, she could tire out the remainder of the Entente. Unfortunately her peace of mind was doomed to be short-lived and has been nipped by a frosty note of censure from Lord Curzon. This cruel message from England is hardly loss curt than the refusal of France and Belgium. It even states that the British will...
...valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger of government meddling in international trade. The present hubbub over rubber is mainly a political rather than business issue. It proceeds more from a desire to "twist the lion's tail than from a tender sympathy for tire manufacturers...
...largest semirigid airship in the world, the TC-2, having a gas capacity of 750,000 cubic feet, is being completed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, to serve as an airplane carrier. The Washington Naval Conference placed a limitation on the number and tonnage of ship airplane carriers, but no such restriction was placed on airship carriers-at that time scarcely thought of as practicable. Army experts also claim that the airship carrier will have many advantages over the naval airplane carrier...
...bill." Edward of Wales: "While riding in the Army point-to-point race at Arborfield, I took my seventh bad fall in four years and came up unhurt. Newspapers point out that as far as horsemanship goes I resemble Henry VIII more than William III. Henry used to tire out eight or ten horses a day by hard riding. William died from a fall when his horse stumbled over a molehill." Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince: "I had my photograph taken on my solitary Dutch isle-a clear profile against a dark background of clouds. When it was shown...