Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poor shooting was one of the two primary factors of the debacle. The other was a six-foot, six-inch center named Jack Underman, whose fine pivot work and sheer size proved too much for his federal defenders. Before he fouled out in the last quarter, the husky Sophomore ace had accounted for 14 of his team's 46 points, enough to make him high scorer of the evening. Runner-up with 12 points was his teammate, Paul Huston, while Wyndol Gray and Saul Mariaschin led the Crimson offense with 11 apiece...
...intellectuals still harangued, loud & long and with an air of responsibility, as tf they were intercepting some immediate attack by sheer power of verbiage. But few of them agreed on anything and few knew how the bombs looked, whether they hissed slightly before exploding, or whether they had to be kept in an ice box. Also it was a well-known fact that the same parties got excited about toe dancing...
...thought that no one need apologize for the splendid writings of these men. However, our real issue with you is the fact that you omitted Thomas Wolfe from your list of our best authors. This is incredible. . . . Although they are unorthodox, his novels which are sheer poetry in spots are well on their way toward becoming American classics that are required reading for any student of literature. . . . JOHN C. HENCHEL E. L. GALLIGAN Philadelphia
Astromentalists were also delighted to learn that F. W. was only 52 years old and therefore practically in his bassinet. For no Astromentalist went into "voluntary retirement" (the new name for death) before he was 200. "Retirement" was sheer pleasure, anyway; cellular scientists simply reduced the living body, by rapid stages, first from maturity to infancy, then back into a cozy, synthetic womb (complete with umbilical cord), and finally to the stage where the heart of the "retiring" fetus ceased to beat...
...Sheer Luck. In Cambridge, Mass., Salesgirl Mary Flaherty politely said there were no nylons, stood speechless when a customer gave her a pair "because of the polite way you always turned me down...