As a player, Eckel was assiduous and adroit. Harold Davis writes that "assiduous research has failed to identify Catherine with any historical personage". The latter became the most assiduous proponent of the theory. Assiduous attention to detail is needed when creating zellige. An assiduous networker, he embraced left-wing politics at Cambridge and joined the British Communist Party. He apprehended the Christ's teaching by assiduous reading of the New Testament. The President is the best of us, but he needs constant and assiduous cooperation. Its original meaning is "assiduous or hard and frequent walking/practice". He has also been an assiduous translator of European texts. The Aran islanders, like the Blasket islanders further south, were assiduous users of the curach. Dutton was assiduous in developing Speedwords and its predecessor Dutton shorthand. The MIRA party is known for its assiduous work at the Congress of Colombia.