Word: countless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors of the humor rag have made themselves famous by such pranks as the removal of the "sacred cod" from the House of Representatives in the State House at Boston, and the purloining of the Yale fence, which has served for countless years as a backdrop for the pictures of all Eli gridiron captains...
...minor actor in the revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The Johnson brothers thought little of their song after finishing it, but Jacksonville children continued to carol it, passed it on to other Negro schools. Since then it has sold half a million copies, exists also on countless thousands of typewritten pages pasted in the backs of hymnals and school songbooks. It is a standard selection, especially popular as a quartet number, in Negro colleges, has also spread to white groups...
Lost Illusions. The world had held its breath since the announcement of the Nazi-Soviet Pact eleven days previously. Now it breathed again, not with relief but with the sense of destiny ineluctably on the march. On countless lips was Sir Edward Grey's despairing cry of World War I that the lamps were going out all over Europe. Many genuinely feared that Europe would next be illumined by the fires of Hitler's rage. But a great number of the citizens of the Democracies, nervous though they were, felt a great deal less tragic than Edward Grey...
Bread is no longer slow poison. This momentous reversal of the teachings of U.S. dieticians has been made by Columbia's Professor Henry Clapp Sherman, dean of U.S. nutritionists, who for years has warred against bread as the No. 1 staple of the American diet. In countless articles on nutrition Professor Sherman has crusaded against our enemy, the wheat loaf, backing up his written views with pictures of laboratory rats who, when fed on white bread diet, lost their hair, teeth, whiskers, and eventually grew peaked and died...
...nine years he worked at his exacting Tokyo job, which he conceived of as a great opportunity to bring about genuine Japanese-U.S. friendship. His appeal was to the peaceful Japanese whose interests were in international trade and, therefore, amity. He won the high personal regard of countless Japanese, and returned it in full measure. But months before Pearl Harbor he told Washington that his reports had to be brief; Japan's military dictators were operating in dark secrecy. Then, for more than six months after Pearl Harbor, he was obliged to bide his time in Tokyo while...