Word: countless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater tribute can be paid to the artistry of Mr. Orson Welles and his company, than the fact, that on Sunday evening, for countless hundreds of sane normal people, something as fantastic as an invasion from Mars was reality...
...anti-aircraft defenses near public buildings, the distribution of millions of gas masks to the urban population. Suppose that six weeks later, with the crisis passed, Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring confessed to Congress that the air-raid precautions had been so badly muddled that had war come, countless U. S. citizens would have needlessly been killed. Unquestionably the gravest sort of scandal would have followed...
...their grey fiannel pants (which were replaced by ones which matched their coats), their dirty shoes, and their bow ties, which were both also replaced with a view to obscuring any identification with their Alma Mater, eight Seniors joined local Republican Vote-chasers Tuesday afternoon by volunteering to resurrect countless sequestered but registered as Republicans by some all-pervading act of Providence or the Republican City Committee and drive them to the polls...
Unobtrusively slipping by after formal classes are over, afternoon and evening lectures on countless subjects are presented by some of the ablest and most prominent members of the Faculty. The sad story is that these do slip by, unnoticed and unattended except by an alert few. Lectures open to the public as well as students have the smallest College representation, mainly because undergraduates forget time and place or consider the effort needed to go, fruitless. Unfortunately for them, they are passing by an irretrievable chance to learn something about subjects which are only names to the mind, or to pursue...
...because of atmospheric distortion, the image comes in as a diffuse, approximately circular blob. In practice the light is therefore fed through a narrow slit, perhaps one-thousandth of an inch wide. This screens off most of the diffuse image, but wastes 90 to 95% of the light, squanders countless hours of exposure time on big telescopes, prevents spectroscopic analysis of the farthest visible nebulae or "island universes...