Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recognize the fact that the myriad troubles which beset China are not all due to foreign aggression; that which is probably the most serious is accounted for by the corruption of the Chinese officials themselves. Embezzlement and the misuse of public funds to the advantage of private affairs is a common practice, exercised with little or no check, while not infrequently officials have shamelessly accepted bribes in return for which they have sold the interests of their country. But', they continued, 'our troubles on this account, scandalous as they are, are greatly magnified when the money power of a foreign...
...building. Now let us suppose the man is deliberating whether he will roast the pig, and, if so, whether by setting fire to the house. Similarly, the first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects of a war?" They may be any of a myriad of things. Assume that the principal object is to defend American lives on the seas. Then we must ask, "Shall we set fire to the American mansion?" An answer depends on the answers given several other questions. Will the pig be roasted by burning the house, or burned to ashes...
...welter of evening lectures, concerts, and meetings which the myriad interests of Harvard offers, there is much confusion. The music-lover who is anxious perhaps to hear a famous statesman lecture loses an opportunity, because he cannot miss his Symphony; and the member of many clubs and organizations frequently finds himself swamped with their meetings when distinguished world authorities to whom he would like to listen, are talking three blocks away in Emerson J or the Union...