The Batesville Casket Co.'s cavernous coffinmaking plant in Batesville, Ind. is a macabre study in industrious efficiency.
An industrious people, strong work ethic.
WORK-BRITTLE, OR WORK-BRICKLE Sense 1: Eager to work; energetic; industrious.
This landmark report is industrious both in methodology and in its findings.
Pretty and popular, with no apparent interest in studying, she's the one who industrious girls were tacitly promised would not succeed in the real world.
She was described as an industrious and inquisitive child with a strong love of studying the Bible, learning and reading, and she developed affectionate relationships with her teachers.
Authors, politicians, and educators espouse the importance of American youth studying hard, in part to compete with industrious students around the world.
An industrious person, she is craving time to do her artwork, to study a language, to write.
But the industrious young Regan won a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied law.
SHOW-BUSINESS professionals tend to regard stage-struck academics with a certain distrust, but the industrious Mary Zimmerman manages to juggle a full-time professorship of performance studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., with a nonstop career as a director.
The most industrious people have lots of early nights: they have work tomorrow.
