Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alcohol, also a solvent without which the chemical industry is helpless. We could ferment it from wheat, barley, or rye, although, through sheer inertia, we stick to molasses, although Germany has been fermenting potatoes for two decades. And only the Axis has bothered to distill it from coal or wood...
...England has not known since 1066, Dr. Temple is the right man to head the Church. He was one of the very few British leaders bold enough and clear-sighted enough to denounce the surrender at Munich promptly and openly. He condemned Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy as "sheer opportunism," proposed calling "a Congress of Europe" to discuss orderly treatment of the problems of World War I treaty revision. In 1939 he advocated postwar Federal Union...
...Sheer exhaustion" on the part of the British...
...sheer scope, the project that came out of Harold Ickes' office this week made the St. Lawrence Seaway look like a seashore runnel dug by children with holiday spoons and pails. It would harness nearly as much power as the Seaway to start with, and power was a minor part of it. Its economics were admittedly more heretical than the Seaway's, but its urgency was greater too. Its cost was incalculable and unspecified. It embraced 25 States and Alaska. It took Harold Ickes 35 pages merely to outline it in a letter to Senator O'Mahoney...
...great deal of this enthusiasm appears to be running to waste, from sheer confusion, and lack of information. While a majority of upper classmen feel that "during the war students should spend most of their time on specific training for war," they also want the universities to concentrate on giving liberal arts training. More than 40 per cent of the college is convinced that if they are drafted their training and experience will not be considered by the Army. In the light of Professor Seavey's recent report on his tour of draft camps, this is clearly a mistaken impression...