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Word: endlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which incubate the louse and shelter all manner of odors. Most have no shoes, but they can march 40 miles a day when pressed. They exist on the equivalent of 65 U.S. cents a month, nearly half of which they have to pay for mess expenses. Furthermore, they endure endless defeat and disappointment without losing their sullen determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: The Army Nobody Knows | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...learned how to tell what was the important part of a lecture or a chapter. The course had taught him how to get down to work and how to organize a disturbing disarray of dates and names in an orderly sequence. Perhaps most important of all, the endless succession of weekly, bi-weekly, tri-weekly "quizzes" had taught him of necessity how to pass tests; even now, whenever he starts writing an exam Vag thinks of another sentence of that same lecturer: "In an hour examination, gentlemen, time is of the essence." Yes, he really owed a lot to that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/22/1941 | See Source »

Precariously seated in the coxswain's seat of the Leverett House shell, a blonde Wellesley sophomore caused endless confusion underneath the Larz Anderson bridge yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Cox Plus Bunny Eight Equals Traffic Jam | 5/15/1941 | See Source »

...were sitting in the park because only there could they get away from purring telephones and the endless shuffling of papers. One of them, lean, very tall (6 ft., 3½-in.), with a middle-parted mane of thick, snowy hair, cool, amused, shrewd eyes, was dressed conservatively and expensively, his crossed legs revealing old-fashioned high-lace shoes, with a boot pull at the back. The other, of medium height, fat, young, voluble, looked like an aggressive laundry bag; he was dressed as if various garments had been thrown on him as he hurried past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: All Out | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...submarine base, an endless string of dull-red buildings situated at the two-mile mark and previously objectionable only while it obscured the racing crews, was supposed to be the reason why the Government was ordering the race to be held elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only War to Cause Shift Of New London Crew Race | 4/30/1941 | See Source »

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