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Word: countless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This strong outfit is facing a Harvard team which hasn't scrimmaged as a unit once this season. There have been countless minor injuries to his potential starting players, and Harlow is going to rely on the individual ability of his aggregation to survive the Crimson's initial venture this season...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Formal Football Returns With Husky Clash | 9/28/1946 | See Source »

Disconsolate Istanbul Moslems could take some comfort in the knowledge that in countless other mosques identical hairs from the Prophet's abundant beard still repose safe & sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: By the Beard of the Prophet! | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...drivers of the few taxis which have returned to the streets cast furtive looks at the countless charred, gutted vehicles, and will not go near the recently dangerous areas for any price. Even though most of the bodies have been taken away, the unholy sweet stench of death lingers in many neighborhoods. Streets are still stained with blood. Cows wander aimlessly through Clive Street-the Wall Street of India-stopping in the shadow of its high buildings to munch at scattered garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Cows in Clive Street | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...three large rooms in Widener, in countless library shelves, in acres of show cases, and even on the restful expanses of many chairs, William Van Lennep, Curator of the College Library theatre collection, and his assistants attempt to index and catalogue Harvard's ever-growing and world famous collection of theatrical mementoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ghosts of Held, Lind Stalk Widener In Third-Floor Theatre Collections | 8/20/1946 | See Source »

...vast problems, and some of them Congress had left for the next session. For the most pressing of them it had put up a structure to control prices which was a compromise between Harry Truman's hopes and those of the anti-price-controllers. There were still countless other Government controls of varying stringency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Toward Peace | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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