Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyed by bombs, or converted to other uses. Parents had put their children to work (or taught them to beg) in order to bolster family earnings. With boys' clubs broken up by evacuation, social centres taken over for war work, high-spirited youngsters turned to crime out of sheer boredom...
...Washington was carved from the largest block of marble he could find. His Wars of America, in Newark, N. J., was at one time the largest bronze group in the U. S. Mount Rushmore was a big enough monolith to satisfy even Borglum. Said he: "There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves, something that relates us to God and to what is greatest in our evolving universe...
With this wealth of returning veterans and a strong Freshman squad coming up, "The Skipper" should have a good initial year at Brown. Give him any reasonable material to work with and he'll round it into shape if only by his sheer drive...
...only on the strength of their 55 to 20 win over the Ulenmen last year and their 53 to 22 victory over Princeton last week, the Elis can be rated prohibitive favorites to overwhelm the Crimson finners by sheer power tonight. Princeton gave Harvard its only setback of the year in the meet at Tigertown several weeks...
...cannot be denied that "H. M. Pulham, Esquire" is a crystal-clear delineation of the life of a Harvard man. Harry's story certainly is not to be read as a sure-fire formula for success in life, but just as certainly it is to be read for sheer enjoyment...