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...referendum of last week free sale was carried by a majority, but since New Zealand always had had free sale,* the vote signified merely that voters are more wet-minded than they were nine years ago. Three years hence another referendum will be held and so ad infinitum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Wet Mistake | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...worried. All he needed was a draw to win first place in the International Grand Masters Tournament, to repeat his triumph gained at Moscow three years before. On the 36th move he succeeded; achieved a situation which his opponent could not prevent his repeating ad infinitum if the aggressor wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chess | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...play is largely a talk fest dealing with such stuff as the cruel 'ard capitalists, the workingman's brotherhood, bread and betrayed daughters, etc. ad infinitum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

There is something essentially unethical in all this. It seems a truism to say that the raison d'etre of a Senator is to legislate rather than to perpetuate his lease of power and that of his party ad infinitum if possible. Yet the senatorial attitude seems to be the reverse of this. And Haines' reappointment seems to indicate that the president shares the senatorial viewpoint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTES VERSUS GOVERNMENT | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...German romanticists. That is to say, an ironist in the romantic sense not only looks down upon his ordinary ego from the height of his "transcendental ego", and stands aloof from it, but there is in him something which may even stand aloof from this aloofness and so ad infinitum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

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