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Word: countless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most people, Arthur Honegger is the great locomotive man of music. He wrote Pacific 231, a huffing, whooshing, lickety-split program piece which has snorted down countless orchestral tracks in the past 16 years. "I love locomotives," says Composer Honegger, "the way other men love women or animals." A solid, massive-browed, bob-haired man, Honegger rode a New Haven locomotive, clad in beret and white overalls, on his last U. S. visit in 1929. Most of the time he lives in Paris. There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Movie Music | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Without the ready help in arms and equipment which Sweden and the Western Powers have given us, our struggle up to this date would have been inconceivable against the countless guns and tanks and aircraft of the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Mannerheim to His Men | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Gracie raised Cain on the air, popping up on countless programs in search of her supposedly missing brother. The search went on for months, got to be a coast-to-coast gag. It also boosted Burns & Allen's radio popularity tremendously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...diplomatic relations with the Vatican. . . . Surely it would not be to the credit of Protestantism if it should find itself in the situation, at some future time, of having blocked a movement that was able to contribute to the ending of the war and to saving the lives of countless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Good Friends | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...testimonial dinner given in his honor on February 6, Apted was breveted by the CRIMSON the first full General in the history of the University. His long experience with the suppression of countless riots and student's practical jokes has made him one of the outstanding figures in University life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD POLICE HEAD SEVERELY ILL WITH ASTHMA AND COLD | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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