Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoe industry is practically at a standstill, and the operators can quite afford to wait a few weeks until the workers are driven back to the shops by sheer want, for orders are not so many or so pressing that they cannot be filled next week as well as today. Nothing beyond pure benevolence or consideration on the part of the employers can bring any alleviation of the workers position, and the operators in the sloe industry are not widely noted for such philanthropy. In short, strikes in this region are hardly more than brave gestures, yet the Massachusetts trouble...
...work of a third year and to a small group of graduate students. As rapidly as possible the present curriculum should be permeated with a critical study of wide relationships. Nevertheless, the curriculum of the School must continue both objective and realistic and be kept free from sheer sentimentalism. From a pedagogical standpoint this can only be accomplished by thorough specialized study early in the curriculum of business as it exists both statically and dynamically. The larger objectives can be effectively approached only on the background of such training. Any other approach would turn into efforts to blueprint the future...
This is a book that will have of necessity a limited appeal. It is neither the sort of thing that one would buy for inspiration or sheer amusement. As its title page suggests, it is a bibliography of books about printing and the technical side of book-production, their history and presentday adaptation. As a result, it will attract for the most part, those interested in fine books, in publishing and in printing treated...
...early 1920's War-Veteran Hitler plunged into local Munich politics, rose by sheer gift of gab, lung power and personal magnetism to such eminence that on the night of Nov. 8, 1923 he with General Erich Ludendorff attempted the famed "Beer Putsch." In the presence of the Military Governor of Bavaria, General von Kahr, spellbinder Hitler leaped upon a beer-greasy table and bellowed...
...sheer, high-handed awkwardness this arrangement could scarcely be surpassed. It meant the undoing by Chancellor von Papen of his own oratorical efforts to convince the Bavarian Free State that he really has no intention of encroaching on "States rights...