Word: timelessness
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...Chinese resistance still surged after more than five years. Where a Japanese soldier stood, and within the area where the comrades of his garrison could range, there was the kind of peace the Japs liked. But where no soldier stood in the country of the conquered, there was the timeless surge of reconquest...
...Timeless Treasure. The West finds it difficult to understand how Indians, at a moment when Japan is at their gates, can occupy themselves with opposition to Britain. The West cannot be expected to have a clear mental picture of the dirt-poor, uneducated majority of India's 389,000,000 people. If it did, the West might realize that most of them think they have very little to lose to Japan, and little knowledge of Japan to begin with. To fight, they would need a strong incentive...
Ling Tan, his wife Ling Sao, their three sons, their daughters, the wives and children of their sons were one of those timeless, slightly-too-noble peasant families to whose portrayal Mrs. Buck brings sympathetic talents. They held land not far from Nanking, land to which they were immemorially anchored. Deep in their earth, when they dug a well, they found ancestral shards; and Ling Tan felt that he owned not merely the boundaries of his farm but a whole column of creation, straight through the planet, and straight into those unreadable stars whose toy-like glinting made friendly...
...Arlington Cemetary) belatedly celebrated it with an exhibition of maps models and photographs. Architect Rich's exhibition showed what a beautiful job an unfettered planner can do with a city. It also showed that, in a fluid age of mechanical progress, cities must be planned, not like timeless monuments, but like elastic military campaigns...
...Divinity School, the 80-year-old professor of Philosophy, emeritus, climbed the circular stairs to the Chapel pulpit. He began his lecture with an explanation of how the universe is separated into two abstractions consisting of "the world of activity and the world of values." The values are timeless and immortal, and all facts depend on the realization of these values...