Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate had convened that day in a state of sheer hot-weather weariness that the passage of the Housing Bill (see p. 10) the day before had not done much to help. One fair indication of the Senate's state of mind was that, in a rush of minor bills on which there was no debate, it had approved one, to give merchant seamen whose certificates are suspended the right to appeal to the Secretary of Commerce, which had already been enacted. An even better indication was that, after the non-controversial bills were passed, only about 20 members...
...winter. When the Royal Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last fall ordered a defender built for himself alone...
...John Llewellyn Lewis looks back from a dazzling height or a dark depth at the first week of July 1937, he may well mark it as a turning point in his remarkable career. It was the week in which Public Opinion, veering away from both Labor and Management in sheer irritation with their five-week wrangle on the Steel Front, was summed up by Labor's great friend Franklin Roosevelt in Shakespeare's phrase...
...sight good, most of his teeth sound. He liked to chat on the latest in finance or politics, kept in touch with oil business almost daily. About the only thing he refused to discuss was Rockefeller Center. He thought his son's Manhattan pile was close to sheer folly...
Thoroughly tired of his company's continuing to be to the Bolivian Government what the Jews are to Hitler and the Trotskyites are to Stalin, an unnamed Standard Oil official at New York last week exploded: "Preposterous, utter, sheer nonsense! We would not raise a finger or lift a telephone receiver to stir up trouble in Bolivia." Meantime, with the Bolivian press crackling away at the yanqis, President Toro quietly transferred Standard Oil's confiscated refineries to the Government-owned Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales, prepared to give them a new whirl...