Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recounted his Sindbadic journey. Between Croyden, which he had left three weeks ago without fuss, flurry or publicity, and Rome there was bad fog. He was glad to get beyond Rome. "After that for a long time I seem to remember nothing but endless stretches of desert. Once I sighted a group of Arab tents with tethered camels. A whole day I was lost in Libya and as I was trying to clear a space in the desert for a take off, a party of Arabs cantered up. It was an anxious moment. There were friendly overtures on my part...
...rapid tempo: the ideas set down as dogmas in a scientific textbook "brought up to the minute" a decade ago are a laughingstock now. The actual accomplishments of Science are tangible enough, but the reasoning used to explain them today merely forms a link in an endless chain of fallacies tomorrow...
...second winter, some jealous deity reached out his hand toward Helen Keller. She had an illness, "acute congestion of the stomach and brain"; afterward she was as deaf and as blind as an idol. For five years, "a peevish, unmanageable little animal," she squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon her hand, brought Helen Keller along a lane to light. Years later she could read and write. Years later still, when she was an author, lecturer, philanthropist, Mark Twain could say that...
...endless stream of obvious landsmen with nautical aspirations tramped bravely up the gangways and roamed the concentrated, neat interiors. Women fingered cooking utensils professionally. Experts hung at precarious angles peering into mechanical viscera. Small boys delighted to honk horns or to seat themselves surreptitiously when salesmen, displaying tasteful arrays of toilet accessories, were not looking...
...classic English school, and in spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where a simple "What of it?" would suffice, there is always that much more amusement for the occupants of the ringside seats...