Word: untold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote a pamphlet this spring to prove it, and the College published the pamphlet. Before young Mr. Brownlee could say oleomargarine, the dairymen of the Hawkeye State were shrieking that his 35-page pamphlet had jeopardized the nation's entire food program, and had wrought "untold injury" to Iowa's $100,000,000-a-year industry...
Ponder on it, Bill. There are untold possibilities, the beauties of the spring sowing and the harvest, for instance, about which Wallace Woodworth could improvise a pastoral symphony in 100 voices. Can't you envision the swaying bodies of the reapers (brought in by the Student Union in truckloads from everywhere) and the rhythmic motion of their scythes. And then there are the social possibilities. Corn husking bees, with red ears a-plenty. Square dances in Dillon Field House, with chaff upon the floor...
...Mihailovich's example has kept all Yugoslavia in a wild anti-Axis ferment. The Axis has resorted to executing untold thousands, but the revolt continues. Last month the Nazis said they had seized Mihailo-vich's wife, two sons and daughter, threatened to execute all relatives of Mihailovich's army and 16,000 hostages if the General did not surrender within five days. He did not. It is a misfortune that conquered Europe cannot learn detail by detail the effective methods used by the gaunt, hard, bronzed fighter on TIME'S cover (painted...
Tapioca-pudding haters- numbering untold thousands of U.S. children and of still rankled grownups-got bad news last week. They had hoped that the Battle of the Pacific had cut them off for a long time from Java-grown tapioca. But the Department of Agriculture last week announced an understudy for tapioca, a new type of waxy corn developed by their plant breeders. Much relieved were industries which use tapioca for glue, and the Post Office Department, which uses it as a stamp adhesive...
...Will vicious black markets spring up? Will untold rackets-unrecorded cash transactions, special surcharges for prompt delivery, etc.-such as are already gaining headway, grow and flourish...