Word: countless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While germs are the smallest and possibly the most numerous of Petrillo's enemies, they are by no means the only ones. He maintains a noisy state of war with countless members of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms...
...jump the wake, christy, and tailwag to your heart's content with only a few days of practice, and, as you become more adept, countless other methods of soaking yourself will appear. The ingenious inventors of this comparatively new sport have even stretched their imaginations to the construction of wooden jumps and slalom courses of elusive floats...
...someone comes to us for a book on collecting tulips," said Morrill, "we want to have it for him." Among the rare books the store hopes to sell will be a first issue of a first edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and countless Americana...
...Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead's wares were not for such men as the driver. For more than six decades he had displayed them to countless scholars and students, and not all of them were quite sure of what they saw. Nevertheless, Whitehead's wares had a wonderful reputation. On a platform and in his parlor, Whitehead's wit and wisdom were displayed most effectively. And when he put his style to it, he could write with crystalline clarity and poetic insight. But "getting me from my books," he once observed, "is not so much dangerous...
...Even if the money consideration were of no consequence, no Russian, regardless of station in life, and least of all an engineer, would risk even entertaining the thought of communicating with a foreign, capitalist newspaper. . . . Third, of the countless numbers of Russian engineers I have met, both here and in the Soviet Union, not one of them could have possibly written in such good English, or ... displayed such broad knowledge of economic problems here...