Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hussy? What is she? that none of our swains have met her? That none of the girls have seen her. The red-headed Ruth with limpid eye exists as a real menace, a panther grimly lurking in dark corners, ready to spring from her lair only to capture the myriad of Harvard youths who have been vainly looking, longing, searching for the merest glimpse of those Eire eyes, those laughing lips, those daring dimples--all portrayed so accurately by the Boston Sunday Advertiser. Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose; the Harvard youths should wear that winter face...
There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilisation...
...Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table" (no tariffs or insignificant tariffs on foods). Under the Ottawa agreements the London Parliament is to bind itself for five years to maintain a myriad of tariffs on foodstuffs, from which Canadian edibles will mostly be exempt. It is this tying of Britain's hands which some of her greatest lawyers have flayed as unprecedented in British constitutional history (TIME...
...stage, moved it closer to the grandstands. Still the largest outdoor stage ever built (50,000 sq. ft.), it is now the first unit opera stage, has the largest portable outdoor stage lighting equipment ever assembled. They built ten great ramps tilted toward the audience, broke these up into myriad levels. There is a revolving unit 30 ft. high, which last week furnished a mountain pass in Carmen, a monster throne and then a tomb in AH da, the waterfall in Tom-Tom. For the mountain in last week's Die Walküre, nothing less than a real...
Sargon's Bull. No great number of Chicagoans, even of the select 300 who attended the Oriental Institute's opening, could begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this...