Word: endlessly
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...