Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myriad demands were made, so they were met by a ten-myriad of orders. It was a great game whether or not it all happened as reported. In the end, the captains of industry were rewarded for their labors. A telegram arrived...
...islands in relation to the continental masses, past and present; 2) the continental sources of the fauna of the islands; 3) the variations that have grown up between the forms of life on the islands and similar species on the mainland; 4) the life history of their myriad bird inhabitants...
...spite of the verbosity of experts, it is too early to appraise the significance of the Ruhr occupation in its entirety, because the discussions of today were but the events of yesterday. Propaganda in myriad forms and from myriad sources has hypertrophied the entire situation. The facts relevant to the case at present are that France and Belgium went into the Ruhr to get reparations that they could not obtain voluntarily from Germany. Germany claimed that the step was illegal. Passive resistance was begun immediately by Germany and lasted throughout the Spring, the Summer and the best part...
...America. He lives frugally in a simple shack in the North Carolina mountains, does his own work except for a clay-boy and a horse to turn his mixing-wheel. From the rich mineral clay of the region he shapes and bakes vases and bowls of exquisite pattern and myriad hues-rose, amber, mahogany, violet, sang de boeuf. Some of his types, known as "Omar Khayyam vases," command high prices from connoisseurs. No two of his pieces are alike...
...fact that "Our young readers want nothing but trash--such as Dickens and Thackeray. "Vanity Fair", "Pendennis", "The Newcomes", and "Esmond", had already been published; "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", and "Nicholas Nickleby", to mention but a few of the illustrious list, had appeared some time before. A hungry myriad of readers was clamoring for more "trash...