Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, began lecturing on science for ten days. She will be followed by Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Playwright Paul Green and Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges. A symphony orchestra, string ensemble, ballet and drama groups are already deep into rehearsals. The sheer responsiveness of the students inspires the 27-man faculty recruited from high schools and colleges in nine states. One college instructor found that he had taught in three days what consumes a month in his college classroom. Says Political Science Instructor Jivan Tabibian of Wake Forest College: "If we could only...
...sheer numbers the Faculty of Education increased from 28 in 1948 to 148 in 1961. (At the same time the student body expanded from 252, most of whom were part-time, so 589, most of whom were full-time.) To improve relations with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences a number of joint appointments were made, notably in mathematics and psychology, and the process of departmental consultation for Ed School appointments was instituted...
...eats"), part Vic Tanny ("Hang a tether ball on a nail; punch it; punch, punch, punch"). She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism. She dips as well, unfortunately, into sheer medical foolishness, instructs readers in search of momentary relief from irritation to plunge their faces into bowls filled with ice water, their legs simultaneously into steaming hot vats...
There is a point at which the "plague on both your houses" outlook of the British left turns into sheer self-righteousness. Precisely at this point Marghanita Laski sat down to write The Offshore Island for the B.B.C. in 1954. In the resultant drama the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as allies-fin-destruction, victimizing innocent England...
...only heartbreak or death. In 1924, just 800 ft. from the summit, George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanished forever into the swirling mists. And in 1952, without sleeping bags or even a stove to boil water on, a party of Swiss struggled to 28,200 ft., where sheer exhaustion forced them to turn back...