Word: infinitum
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...agent for her Continental Allies were really more than counterbalanced by her own expenditures in their behalf. Ergo these sums cancel out of any discussion of the Anglo-U. S. debt. . .etc. . . . etc.. . . etc. . . . At this point the debate, though showing every sign of being continued ad infinitum, passed into the limbo where hairs are split-often by honest, well-intentioned men. The total result of last week's academic tilt was to rouse a majority of British editors to frenzied indignation at the U. S. Cartoons labeled "USury" were frequent in which " Uncle Sam" became "Uncte Shylock...
Eclipsed for an hour, he turned to his pen. Steadily there flowed out upon literary France the prodigious flood of his pent up genius: La, Melée Sociale, Le Grand Pan, Le Voile du Bonheur, etc., ad infinitum. His published works have swelled to the equivalent of 35,000 ordinary novel-size pages...
...dusty and dirty, many carrying in the parade little black bags with their belongings; bundles of clothes and food bulged many robes; some carried civilian hats in their hands. And it was frightfully hot. There was an awful thirst upon them. Watermelon and ice cream cones were consumed ad infinitum from many a vendor...
...With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from end to end. And in America universal mourning will reign, for one-fourth of the national stock of jokes will have been wiped out overnight. More than a ready use of "honorables" and ability to discover, ad infinitum, names riming with "pajama" will be required of our humorists. All this and more will ensue, for the Japanese will soon speak better English than American Nordics, even from Boston...
...means to this end. Now Secretary Wilbur proposes to make this ratio end itself. As he interprets it, so long as the United States, Great Britain, and Japan keep to the ratio, the merry race to see which can float the most tons of steel can go or ad infinitum. It has evidently not occurred to him that competitive building is useless unless it confers an advantage upon numbers. To continue to build when an established ratio makes certain that one nation will be relatively no stronger at the end than it was at the beginning, is absurdity itself...