• Of course, by 1940, commercial air service had been hauling transcontinental freight, passengers, and mail for more than a decade, and doing so largely as a result of the incentive of Lindbergh's solo feat and his industrious efforts as a million-dollar-a-year consultant to the newly organized airlines.

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  • Yarnell was a good man, thrifty and industrious, and he later became a prosperous house painted in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  • In the relaxed, jolly faces around me is the sense of a way of life that is industrious, simple and integrated into a landscape and a community - the lives of contented people.

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  • We competed so keenly that when the school stopped ranking us some industrious students set up a table in the cafeteria where classmates could report their grades.

    NEWYORKER: The Master

  • The Irish appeared to be firmly back in business 11 minutes later when the wonderfully industrious Doyle lashed in a glorious goal with his left foot from the right angle of the penalty area.

    BBC: Republic of Ireland 3-1 Andorra

  • How the tax system treats the industrious or fortunate rich says a lot more about the social and political mood than about revenue-raising.

    ECONOMIST: A fresh political row over the taxation of high earners

  • Raul Meireles, industrious in midfield, had a shot deflected wide, while Ronaldo, who has not found the net for Portugal since February 2009, missed the target with a free-kick.

    BBC: Ivory Coast 0-0 Portugal

  • By contrast, Passage presented a picturesque and industrious land.

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  • Chopra, a lively and industrious presence throughout, had Jones's men in front five minutes later when he timed his run perfectly to stay onside before collecting Whittingham's threaded through ball and drilling his angled shot into the bottom corner.

    BBC: Blackpool 3-2 Cardiff

  • But he was industrious and, being possessed of a companionable nature, grateful that his skill allowed him access to the lives of others.

    NEWYORKER: The Limner

  • The ever-industrious Flintoff, though troubled by a hip problem, got one to climb at Ryan Hinds but he fended it short of Kevin Pietersen diving forward in the gully.

    BBC: Swann haul puts England in charge

  • But then came a moment of brilliance from Elmander, who collected a pass from the industrious Holden inside the box and somehow eluded the mass of players surrounding him before slotting calmly into the bottom corner.

    BBC: Wolves 2-3 Bolton

  • After a drop in followers of the faith, one industrious priest decided that the best way to get the youth back to church was to offer a party in the sacred crypt that holds the remains of church bishops and cardinals from eras gone by.

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  • Curiously for a place that has such industrious people, Turkey does not have an especially good record in business.

    ECONOMIST: The economy has had a big boost from much sounder management

  • Apart from her years of hard work and diligence, she is fortunate to have a team of talented and industrious assistants who help to propel her to greater heights.

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  • Some speculate that Americans, being the cultural heirs of the industrious Puritan settlers, are still gripped by a Protestant work ethic.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • These industrious types, moreover, still earn only between a quarter and a third of the salaries of their Japanese or western colleagues.

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  • By easing immigration for high-skill workers -- many of them trained in the United States at taxpayer expense -- we get a return on our investment and retain industrious and innovative people.

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  • Books will be published and doctorates awarded on research into how a country that managed to become a member of the euro zone, that staged a very successful Olympic Games in 2004, which has a talented, well-educated and industrious population, should fall so low, so fast.

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  • Some say the expulsion of these industrious Moors set in motion the decline of Spain as a world power.

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  • This line-up of holidays at the beginning of May gives people almost ten days off of work (a perk that might inspire envy in many industrious people in the US).

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  • The industrious Dutch have strong enough dikes and clever enough engineering to survive a one meter rise in the oceans, even though two-thirds of their country lies below sea level.

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  • United were industrious and well-organised, with goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar presenting a formidable barrier with a performance that once again suggested his decision to retire at the end of the season may be premature.

    BBC: Chelsea 0-1 Man Utd

  • Barry Ferguson - who had been impressive in midfield - should have done much better when set up by the industrious Darcheville, but the Ibrox captain blasted the ball well over from a good position, before Adam passed up a set-piece from 20 yards out.

    BBC: Aberdeen 2-0 Rangers

  • The visitors were similarly industrious at the beginning at the start of the second half but only had a wayward effort from Wayne Routledge to show for it.

    BBC: Manchester City 2-1 Newcastle

  • Yangon has a pleasant charm and gentle energy, with vast gardens and riverside walks, the grandeur of centuries-old monuments such as the Shwedegon Pagoda, a fast-growing cultural scene of art galleries and music performances, and a melting pot population of all Myanmar's tribes as well as industrious overseas Indians and Chinese, who make up 5% of the nation's population.

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  • Carlos Tevez's typically industrious efforts aside, City struggled to break the visitors' stubborn resistance with the Argentine cutting a frustrated figure by the lack of service.

    BBC: Manchester City 0-2 Everton

  • Piquionne looked lively up front, testing Joe Hart with a couple of low drives, while O'Hara again pulled the strings in an industrious midfield.

    BBC: Portsmouth 2-0 Birmingham

  • Some of these customers are to be found just up the road, part of the dense engineering conglomeration of this most industrious of towns, but others, such as Boeing Aerospace, for which Pietro Carnaghi has built a machine to shape the top of Delta-4 rockets, are in America.

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  • They have a big set of forwards, while the half-backs Luke Robinson and Kevin Brown are industrious, creating chances to utilise the speed of full-back Brett Hodgson.

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