Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers, Dunster's natators lost to Leverett, 14 to 35, and the Eliot mermen were vanquished by Adams, 16 to 31, in the pool of the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday in inter-House League meets...
...conclusion, he said that "I believe with Harold Laski, that, because of sheer economic pressure, socialism is coming in Britain and it is my hope that some day there will be an international-socialist order...
...book is important in another respect. One bar to understanding Latin America has been the failure of the U.S. imagination before the sheer physical bulk and vastness of the southern continent. The mind recoils from the cold massiveness of the Cordilleras, bogs down in tropical swamps half as big as the U.S., is lost on Rivers of Doubt 3,000 miles long. What has been needed is a sympathetic human figure on a scale and of a piece with the continent, and embodying something of its volcanic fierceness. Such a figure is Simon Bolivar...
...topped William H. Harrison, a genial Irishman who talks out of the side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, got into the defense program by sheer accident. One day in 1940 Bill Knudsen, in search of a construction expert for OPM, called A.T. & T. President Walter Gifford, was switched to Harrison because Gifford was out of town. Harrison took the job, moved up to OPM's production chief...
Inch by inch, with the glacierlike superiority of sheer mass, the Jap forced his way south on Bataan Peninsula. Before him the last big core of resistance in Luzon stood like a granite cliff of valor. The edges of the glacier crumbled, but mass enough to move mountains seemed to be behind...