Word: countless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history of the earth knew and embraced the whole biosphere. . . . That mineralogical rarity, native [i.e., pure] iron, is now being produced by the billions of tons. Native aluminum, which never before existed on our planet, is now produced in any quantity. The same is true with regard to the countless number of artificial chemical combinations newly created on our planet. Chemically, the face of our planet, the biosphere, is being sharply changed by man.... New species and races of animals and plants are being created...
...their own ways and in their own words the countless explorers, trappers, miners, farmers, pilots and rivermen, millers, lumbermen, hydraulic engineers, artists and cowboys echoed him; these books are a record of their joy and travail...
...lived, I get a chance to see what kind of people they really are. Their furniture is modern, and so are their conveniences and sanitation. They are far advanced over the British and French in these respects. From there on, their thoughts turn to war! I have looked at countless books and magazines with dates from 1921-44, and all of them, in some way, glorify the war machine! I looked over some old German calendars. In the U.S. on the page for each month we usually put a 'Varga Girl' or maybe rural scenes, or advertisements...
...harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
...prewar tours of duty, he had inspected countless islands, memorizing tactical details. His sketch maps, from memory, of the Ormoc valley on Leyte were better than anything previously available...