Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing the Farm Board's ultimate appropriation Senators openly deplored its open market policy as a "sheer gamble with public funds." An effort to end its wheat and cotton speculation was beaten (55-to-26) only because Senators did not want to shoulder the responsibility of "hamstringing" its operations at a time when failure by its own action was widely anticipated. Applause rose from the galleries when small, precise Senator George of Georgia declaimed: "Four years more of Herbert Hoover and we'll be fortunate if we don't have to turn the Treasury into a community...
...section of a thoroughly hilarious book is devoted to an improvement of Dr. Fowler's "Modern English Usage." He begins with "who" and "whom" and concludes in crescendo on adverbial advice. In all departments the author shows himself a thorough master of his subject and proves conclusively that for sheer lucidity and clarity nothing can equal manual gesticulation a la Jane Cowl. All of which fits in paradoxically with the fact that Mr. Thurber's humor is the product of delicate, well constructed prose seldom equaled by modern American comic writers...
...more difficult callings," says he, "those in which sheer luck and low cunning are of least importance . . . man is just out of school at 60. This is as true in the rarefied upper realms of business as anywhere else. The younger man who manages to attain to some showy second or third rank among financiers and businessmen is so remarkable that the cheer leaders of low literature . . . and the sob sisters move down upon his abode in echelon formation. ... In the arts the matter is notorious. There are young geniuses and child prodigies, who are admired like the aardvark...
...Fish Report offers a series of recommendations which aim at nothing loss than rooting Communism out of the United States by strong-arm methods. Whether one believes in Communistic principles or whether he shuns them as sheer anathema, such a study of history reveals that revolutionary propaganda thrives under oppression. The recommendations of the Fish Report once put into execution might not only supply food and nourishment to hundreds of Red publications, but also produce an hysteria throughout the country on rather dubious premises. To arouse the expectation of economic and social unrest would do little to assure business stability...
...dumped anything, Stalin declared: "For many years our home market will absorb all we can manufacture and a lot more. . . . In two years we shall be the world's largest grain producer. . . . But all talk about selling below cost, employing 'forced labor' et cetera, is sheer nonsense...