Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clearly evident that the value of the factors labor and capital must be the cost of reproduction, the number and amount of each being relatively limitless and that, both being relatively mobile, location has little to do with value. But Natural Resources (land) being incapable of reproduction and being immovable, their value depends entirely upon location; and that location--value, in turn, depends upon accessibility and desirability, affected in large part by the expenditure of public money for highways and other public improvements. So it is seen that if we could collect taxes on the basis of land values...
...decade may be obsolete in the next. The St. Johns' plan introduces a novel system of study at college. There is a new field now opened up for those donors who are willing to give scholarships without any restricting stipulations, and who are willing to open up a limitless field of knowledge to those who are able to make advantage of the opportunities offered...
...think, a safe statement to say that retail merchandising today affords as wide, profitable, and limitless a career as any field which a college man may consider...
...Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this gastronomic scene Sir Henry offered $83,600. Several Americans slumped in their chairs. The limitless resources of Sir Henry's preposterous wallet were exasperating. Over and over he took what he wanted. Two of the paintings he gave immediately to Dutch museums. Dutchmen were convinced that at his death he would give them the rest. He safeguarded the civic, esthetic affection of the old Burgomaster...
...Nile Valley for two thousand miles. No other Power could possibly interfere. With its Mediterranean Base at Malta, the British Navy always has, and always will, control the sea, and would have no difficulty in maintaining a Monroe Doctrine for Egypt. On both sides Egypt is flanked by a limitless desert which no army could cross. . . . The British rule Egypt well; make no mistake about that. But it is for Empire revenue, not for self-defense. Even the Egyptians are beginning to see the military absurdity of the plea that it is necessary to occupy Khartoum in order to keep...