Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would not be an easy job. Secretary Krug took "national resources" to mean manpower, technology and factories, as well as land, forests and minerals. Rich and bountiful as it is, the U.S. cornucopia is not limitless. Though annual exports on the projected scale of the Marshall Plan would amount to only 2% of the national capacity, they would be piled onto a taut, high-employment economy that was already near busting at the seams...
...Student Cooperation) faces a full agenda with world student exchange, foreign relief work and rehabilitation projects as well as the more obvious matter of helping to orient students from abroad. The number of such specific questions with which each commission can deal when the NSO launches its career stands limitless. By tackling limited tasks suitable for student action, NSO can fulfill the need for an impartial, authoritative organization able to stimulate awareness of deficiencies and provide machinery for their solution...
Mary Bruchholz, Radcliffe '49, outlined the scope of activities the NSO intends to encompass. The central body, she said, would sift workings of various member groups and channel them to campuses where effective ideas could be adopted. "Avenues opened to Radcliffe students by the NSO would be limitless," she affirmed...
...French wines ran from vin blanc at $2 a bottle to Bollinger at $8. The supply of Haig & Haig Scotch was limitless at 50? a drink. The Queen Elizabeth's shops had plenty of pajamas, woolen socks, and suits such as Britons have not seen for years. Out to corner the North Atlantic traffic, Britain had spared no expense nor luxury, even if it came out of the stay-at-homes' cupboard...
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! Bill Pereira has always husbanded his time, which is limited to 24 hours a day, at the expense of his energy, which is almost limitless. While attending the University of Illinois, he rationed his time for so many things that he wore himself down from 175 lbs. to 130. To court his wife (they have a nine-year-old son), he allotted himself one Saturday night a month...