Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stores, a diamond horseshoe, divorce courts, a Congress and other exhibits. But, according to Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum of Natural History, one thing the U. S. has not got for its people to go and look at is a working model of the free and boundless heavens. . . . Last week Dr. Fisher, who is an astronomer, told Manhattan illuminating engineers that the American Museum would soon start raising three millions for a projection planetarium, a dome 75 feet in diameter atop a five-story building designed as an astronomical centre for scholars, amateurs, sightseers of the whole...
...shake our heads over the prostrate form of a weary jester. Next month, perhaps, he will not have recourse to sleeping powders. Perhaps his humor will be spontaneous and fresh--perhaps Spring will offer prolific inspirations, for Cambridge Common is not so boundless...
Four American undergraduates have in the last month committed suicide. Not one of them died without leaving behind some sort of explanation of his act, ranging from the extreme lassitude and disillusion of one to the boundless curiosity of another. Not content with the motives of the actors themselves, the American audience has already begun to psycho-analyze their individual and collective decease...
...invalid lady, trundled her around the city in a motor car eagerly lent and frequently mentioned in the subsequent sob-story, named shops and hotels which elaborately displayed their wares and hospitality to her and the Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude to all the super-generous publicists concerned? What did they think of the St. Paul Pioneer Press which published a full-page self-advertisement to the effect that it was entirely responsible for the visit of Santy Claus to St. Paul this year? What did they think...
...Associated Harvard Clubs, representing Harvard organizations and Harvard men from the four corners of the earth and beyond the seven seas, greet you with assurances of profound respect, unqualified admiration, and boundless affection for one who combines the unconquerable spirit of youth with calm serenity of matured and trained judgment--to us the first of living Americans...