Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their student years. The morality is great and graduation from those institutions is the sole entrance into the professions, the higher civil service and the higher positions in vocational life generally. This is not the situation in the United States. It is a young and growing country of almost boundless resources. New vocations and additional opportunities for new kinds of service are constantly appearing. The pressure for existence is not nearly so great. But neither in Europe nor in the United States do young people go to college merely to be prepared better to earn a living. They are expected...
...Tsarol Decrees." Premier Mussolini, apparently reacting to the seemingly boundless devotion of his followers, called his Cabinet together and issued a series of decrees which the official Fascist press hastened to deplore as "too mild." Actually this "emergency legislation," announced to continue operative for five years, will render* the Premier very nearly as absolute as was poor Nicholas II, last, demented, murdered Tsar of all the Russias...
Below, cities and countryside became indistinguishable. The earth looked "dull-colored, concave, saucer-like." Mist intervened and the plane droned up, isolated in boundless space. At 4,500 metres, Pilot Callizo clapped an oxygen tube to his mouth, fed his motor the same combustion-sustaining gas. At 11,500 metres the mer cury of his thermometer vanished from sight at 58° below zero...
Professor Hart's contributions to historical knowledge have been too boundless to enumerate. A man of indefatigable energy, what he has not written he has edited, so that it is no generalization to declare that he has had his finger in almost every historical pie baked in the last forty years in this country. To realize the truth of this statement it is only necessary to glance in the preface of any work on international law or diplomatic history, and note the ever-present thanks for his advice and sagacity...
...resident of India, and at that time was permanently residing at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras. Mr. Krishnamurti has been associated with Dr. Besant for many years, but his allegiance and friendship for her have been given as a natural tribute in recognition of her boundless services to the whole of mankind in addition to himself. To say that she carried him to England is to create an entirely false impression in the public mind...