Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes) in the Fallen irrigation district; its abundant game-deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, duck, pheasant, sage hen, quail and myriad trout-there is little for them to say except that Nevada is so undeveloped that it is one place a man can still go and pioneer. Nevada still has railroads (the Battle Mountain to Austin, for example) powered by automobile engines. Tonopah's sewer system is privately owned...
Lastly, but of real significance, came the fall of the yellow journalists and the coup-de-grace of the myriad straw votes and polls. First in size and length of reach, William Randolph Hearst once more received the contemptous disdain of the people of the United States as his major candidates and platforms were universally junked. The myth of his political power, long a potent factor in American campaigns, was never more devastatingly exploded, for it proved as impotent and soiled as the man around whom it hovered. Besides the end of the Hearst hypothesis, the Literary Digest and Farm...
...seems highly unfortunate that the reform so recently carried into effect in Government I should have been delayed until the damage of seriously reduced enrollment has been done. Past years of long and highly detailed assignments and generally rough sledding through the myriad details of American government have left their stamp, a Freshman have an instinctive fear of enrolling in this basically worthwhile course. Their attitude is equally founded on both common hearsay and what has been, in the past, the truth...
Such facts as these and a myriad more were last week offered to voyagers through the publication of a top-notch little nautical encyclopedia called Ships and the Sea, A Cruising Companion, written by Pay Lieutenant E. C. Talbot-Booth of the Royal Naval Reserve.* A fat little book, it has 750 pages, over 1,000 illustrations. Though compiled from a British point of view, it is international in scope, universal in interest...
...forces behind the bill. These forces are numerous, powerful and utterly unscrupulous. First comes Representative Dorgan, father of many eye-catching, hollow and communist-baiting bits of worthless legislation. Mr. Dorgan's forte lies in bills to purify the theatre (especially Shakespeare), keep our American youth unsullied from the myriad wiles and snares of Moscow, and prevent the Red universities of Massachusetts from completely seducing the young...