Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many of the refusals were doubtless warranted. But can it be said that full justice is achieved when a Court is forced by the sheer necessity of keeping up with its business to decline, without even an explanation, to hear 87% of the cases presented to it by private litigants...
...shortest, easiest. And one of its best customers is the Koppers group of coke, gas and by-products companies, for all of which coal is the basic raw material. The Mellons, unlike some of their contemporaries, do not play the great game of railroad strategy for the sheer thrill of it. The Virginian is a choice investment. It stayed in the black throughout Depression, earned $11.44 for each share of its common stock in the first ten months of last year...
Your article on Leon Trotsky in the issue of Dec. 28 is a melange of vacuity, stupidity and bourgeois sneers. It was written either out of sheer ignorance, for certain statements and implications have no grounds in fact, or what is more probable, a desire to belittle a movement that will some day sweep you and yours, if I may indulge in a little prophecy, off the face of this planet. I can appreciate your fear but not your attempt to fool others...
...times (1928, 1932, 1936) Olympic figure skating champion, Skater Henie is without doubt the best figure skater who ever lived. For her, the 80 standard figures on which figure skating is based are not a test of skill, but the vocabulary of a form of self-expression which for sheer elegance compares to ballet dancing as the ballet compares to the Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty, as it was Dancer Anna Pavlova's, is a swan dance. On the shrewd assumption that a cinema public which had never before investigated figure skating needed...
College Holiday (Paramount) is one of those enormous, uninspired amalgamations of specialty numbers which Paramount issues periodically in the hope that sheer quantity will assure every cinemaddict of finding at least one item to his special taste. Strung out along a flimsy plot-about an eccentric dowager's scheme of turning her hotel into the scene of a eugenics experiment, and the hotel manager's counterscheme of supplying, as material for the experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned...