Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...review as "floating grandstands," the Berengaria, Alcantara and Arandora Star. On some of these, British spenders paid as much as $250 per head for the day's outing in a deluxe suite. Snapping their Kodaks, they caught the Victoria and Albert steaming up and down eight lanes of sheer, breathtaking Sea Power. Twenty-one-gun salutes rang agreeably in George V's ears-for the thunder of a three-pounder is not noise but music to His seagoing Majesty. That night the British Fleet was "lit up like a Portuguese Carnival"-as an admiring Portuguese diplomat remarked...
...Chinese Government's officials at Peiping and thereabouts continued to kowtow to a few Japanese brigades last week, much of North China seemed to have been brought under the rule of Tokyo without a fight and by sheer bullying bluff. Suddenly, however, there was plenty of fighting at Peiping last week and behind it loomed the dramatic shadow of "The Scholar War Lord...
...program speech, logically considered, this was sheer bumbling and burbling, but such purely emotional talk from an Englishman like Stanley Baldwin goes straight to English hearts. Voters feel that he cares more for his bucolic pleasures, his famed pigs and still more famed pipe, than for the pig iron that made his late father a multi-millionaire and got him into Parliament...
There is no evidence that more men have left Harvard in either of the Conant years than in several years of the Lowell administration. Therefore fear is not inspired by sheer numbers...
...plenty to think about. The little old man haunts his days, Trelia his nights. As the old man's attitude grows more threatening, the girl becomes friendlier. But when Johnny sees that she cannot return his love, he says good-by to her. The old man, out of sheer fiendishness, kills an inoffensive Italian window-washer and an Irish bartender, then has Johnny arrested for murder. Because the old man swears he was an eyewitness and Johnny's alibi is weak, things look black for him. But with Johnny in deadly peril, Trelia's love suddenly awakens...