Word: infinitum
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...Goldblatt super-bargain palace; Henry C. Lytton's Hub, across the other boundary street, Jackson Boulevard; the old Spiegel-Cooper store (now Sears, Roebuck) down the street: the Brothers Mandel on the "world's busiest corner"; the Netcher's Boston Store; Komiss Co., ad infinitum...
...complicated charter against bitter opposition led by brilliant Winston Churchill and grim Lloyd George, the aim of sagacious Sir Samuel was to make a vast number of decisions as wisely as possible and get them fastened irrevocably upon India, rather than to mull over the Indian Question idealistically ad infinitum. Today the great fact in India is that the Indians have accepted their new Constitution as poets accept the structure of a sonnet. It is utterly a thing imposed by London, but within its frame a talented people of wanglers and weaselers can perform all sorts of feats of freedom...
...know your early Greek philosophy," said the Hatter pompously. "Zeno proved that the Tortoise would easily win. For while Achilles was traversing the distance from his starting point to the starting point of the Tortoise, the Tortoise would advance to another point; and this procedure would go on ad infinitum...
...performed prior to your first glimpse of Harvard College. Upon your arrival in Cambridge you are greeted with still more baffling tasks and duties which will keep you occupied for the majority of your time for the next three days. Advice and warning will be issued to you ad infinitum until it may seem that all Harvard is but one round of meetings, examinations, and well meant instructions...
...fact that Professor Sorokin appears to be a real scholar also adds interest. To the student who has no liking for philosophy, or for ideas connoted by such phrases as "intergroup antagonisms, tensions, conflicts," "artistic mentality of a people," "social stratification," unconscious social control," and so forth ad infinitum, the course, and especially the lectures, will be a frightful bore...