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Word: countless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1932 the Crimson eleven eked out a 10 to 7 win but since then the boys in green have returned to their native hills with a 7 to 7 tie and six victories tucked under their belts to say nothing of countless goal posts and empty whiskey flasks tucked safely away in their convertibles...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: VARSITY OUT TO CRACK INDIAN'S SEVEN YEAR STREAK | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

...great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice." Thus quipped vice man Samuel Johnson in one of his more lucid moments. According to Dr. Johnson's specifications, the U. T., as a public amusement, has saved the souls of countless Harvard men who might otherwise have whiled away long, useless hours of vice in Scollay Square, the Brookline Country Club, or Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

...mystery, to mask its progress with high, forbidding fences. This is an unwise attitude. The completion of the building requires student supervision. Only under the watchful eye of students can the work continue safely and efficiently; for, if the construction is supervised only by a totalitarian oligarchy of contractors, countless dangers are imminent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEHIND THE FENCES | 10/10/1940 | See Source »

...Flying Fortress, a monster, four-motored Boeing bomber. Since the first B-17 was delivered to the Air Corps in 1937, the Flying Fortresses have served the Army with the plodding but spectacular fidelity of a string of prize Percherons. Manned by veteran pilots, B-17s have made countless jumps to the Canal Zone and South America, have ranged far out to sea, made long, heavily loaded hops. None has crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: AIR: B-l7s to Britain? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...send men and ships. But it is there that we must steel ourselves to say no. If lives are to be lost in defense of our nation, we must not meet the enemy on his own terms and send our men to futile slaughter. Between the certainty of losing countless lives abroad and the possibility that we may have to police this hemisphere at a tremendous cost, we must choose the latter course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASTERS OF OUR DESTINY | 9/26/1940 | See Source »

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