Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President A. Lawrence Lowell truly said of Thomas W. Lamont, in conferring on him the LL.D. degree in 1931, that he was 'by nature a statesman, by occupation a financier, sagacious in counsel on affairs that affect all nations,' and that he found time 'for boundless service to his university...
Henry J. Kaiser last week needed more money. And he expected to get it from the public, in which he has boundless confidence. Twice before, that confidence has been vindicated. The public has invested $53.5 million in Kaiser-Trazer when Kaiser had little to offer but hope, and the magic of his name...
...Madrid, he says: to keep Spain out of the war ("Many people thought that I had gone to Spain to appease"). Arriving soon after the collapse of France, he played a hand at first "with nothing higher in it than a five of clubs." German prestige was boundless; German spies and informers were thick underfoot. A "very sinister" Turk named Lazar, attached to the German Embassy although he was a Jew, controlled the Spanish press. Seated before signed photographs of Hitler and Mussolini, Dictator Franco received the British envoy with polite disdain...
Fireside globe-trotters are likely to find boundless pleasure in this collection which Editor-Explorer Stefansson calls "an outline history of the world, told by its chief discoverers from Pytheas (Greek discoverer of Iceland and ancient Britain) to Peary (who discovered the North Pole...
Certainly we had not hoped for such boundless energy from Joseph Roger, the small, ugly delegate from France. During the war his job with the Maquis had been to steal Nazi files about the French underground. Caught, shot without trial, and left for dead, he was found two days later by a gravedigger and nursed slowly back to life. Today, still carrying the bullet somewhere in his head, he is back at the Sorbonne, leading in the French student movement...