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Word: sheerer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Terriers lack depth in the running events, although they do have three outstanding performers: Bull Sheerer, New England dash champion last year; Bill Smith, National AAU champion in the 1000 yard race; and George Terry, current IC4A cross-country champion...

Author: By James W. Singer iii, | Title: Track Team to Meet Boston University Tonight in Season's Opener at Briggs | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

NYLON stockings will soon be sheerer. Karl Lieberknecht, Inc. of Reading, Pa., one of the top knitting-machine makers, is producing a new 75-gauge knitter (current highest: 72 gauge) that will turn out the sheerest stockings ever made from 12-denier nylon staple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

WOMEN'S stocking makers are engaged in fierce competition to get sheerer and sheerer hose on the market. Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman cut one line of 66-gauge, 12-denier nylon hose from $2.50 to $1.15 because the manufacturer had been forced out of business. With a new knitting machine to make super-sheer, 72-gauge, 10-denier hose now on the market, many hosiery makers may have to scrap their almost new 51-and 60-gauge machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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