Word: untold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind...
...started dropping the day after Prime Minister Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Minister of Works Duncan Sandys, announced that V-1 was licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament if he had an announcement to make about V2. Mindful of Duncan Sandys' unfortunate experience, he answered: "They have ceased." Then he sat down...
...three solid days it took the worst that Blandy could give it, and it gave back. On the fourth day new battleships added their 16-in. salvos to the big-gun chorus; big carriers sent in more planes. Iwo absorbed more than 7,000 tons of shells plus untold tons of bombs-a record for a Pacific island...
Such prices were not unimpressive considering that in the '703 U.S. architecture and furniture design fell on its ugliest days. Had the United States Hotel been furnished 20 years sooner it would have caught the end of the gracious early-Victorian style-and its contents would have brought untold sums last week. As it was, few collectors and decorators wanted the garish brocades and machine-carved chair-and-sofa sets on the auction block. Records showed that most of this fusty flotsam had come from Manhattan's great A. T. Stewart department store, predecessor to John Wanamaker...
Freshmen entering this summer are the first Hardvardmen in 42 years who will not meet Miss. Anne MacDonald, administrative assistant to the Committee on Admissions. Miss MacDonald, who died on June 24, corresponded with over 35,000 Harvard students before they entered College, and untold thousands who applied for admission and were not accepted. She was an institution in the University, and well-known to school-masters all over the United States...