Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat refusal to be brushed off lightly was having its effect. Stassenites claimed growing strength, spreading out from Minnesota through the upper Mississippi Valley, into the prairie and border states, with tentacles reaching into New England and the Pacific Northwest. The pros could dismiss much of that as sheer partisan exuberance. But a Gallup poll a fortnight ago showed 44% of G.O.P. voters approving his policies, only 21% opposed (for Dewey, 74%; opposed...
...past eight months have been a challenge to Harvard. The sheer size of the undergraduate body as well as its unfamiliar composition have taxed the ingenuity of the Administration from President Conant to the baby deans. Books, instructors, and room space have been in short supply. The effort to maintain high educational standards while serving the largest number of students in Harvard history has put the College to the test. And it has not been found wanting...
HOOP RACE--Purse, one hundred added; for senior maidens: one furlong. Start, jumbled; won, driving: place, faltering. Post 7:15 Winner, blond, by Sheer Drive out of Desperation. Trainer Mac Horton...
...more than the Dramatic Club has been able to give it. With almost no exceptions, for example, the east last night failed to achieve even the minimum requirements of a brogue. Actors crossed awkwardly in front of each other, faced the audience for no apparent reason other than a sheer desire...
General Clark, back in Vienna, had a military metaphor that summed up the conference: "Russia gave us impossible demands, echeloned in depth." The conference, said the Paris independent Combat, "failed beyond all expectations, and since much was not expected, it would be sheer folly to express the slightest optimism...