Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...
...effective, foreign charity helpful. But all this was amelioration, not solution. The blown and shriveled masses who had not starved to death in the famine areas of northeastern India were scourged now by pestilence, by cholera, dysentery, malaria, dropsy, pneumonia. The famine had sharpened India's old and limitless needs: more rice, in steady supply; milk for her children; medicines for her sick; shelter for her homeless. Without these, thus far merely trickling in, there would be many added to the multitude of dead...
...treating it with alkali. Last week's real news was that Dr. F. Ronald Edwards of the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to purify it with heat. If one of these methods can be used for mass production, the plasma supply will be almost limitless-a 1,000-Ib. steer is 7% blood...
...emotion. There was not one which, spanning the fronts in all their global immensity, and the millions of individual tragedies, encompassed the war in a single definitive work. Piecing the accounts together, editing out irrelevancies, readers could compose their own history of their own time from the almost limitless supply of fair-to-good material for speculation and inquiry...
...Writes New York University's Adolph Erich Meyer, associate professor of education, in the June American Mercury: "Everywhere, like the hard-pressed butchers and gas dealers, the men of learning are beating their breasts and saying their prayers. . . .[The war] has finally stopped the limitless expansion which created such chain stores of the intellect as California, Northwestern, Boston, Columbia and New York. . . . This blow should be considerably softened by the large exodus of vocational guides, scientific sociologists, and the professors of business administration . . . handshakers and promoters...