Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fosdick tumbled into leadership by sheer weight of "personality." He is not a Moody, nor a Billy Sunday, nor a Roosevelt. Dignity and reason and gentleness clothe...
...hunters, guns and killing. The only bag-limit change any Secretary has made during the last eight years (1918 to 1925) has been to raise the bag limit on the poor little sora rail from 25 per day to 50 per day! Can you beat that record for sheer evasion of duty and lost opportunities...
...uncle. He went to Manhattan looking for a job, but did not find it, went on to Bridgeport, Conn., where he got a job as bank runner. He was promoted to bookkeeper, then teller. He heard of a new bank opening in Manhattan (the Astor Place Bank) and by sheer persistence worried its cashier into giving him a job. He was paying teller of that bank when he had his first experience with crime. A man came in with a check for $1,000 made out to God Almighty. He pointed a revolver at Davison's head and demanded...
...pigtailed slavey to a wealthy, highly temperamental, badly spoiled but charming intimate of all the Victorian bigwigs including the seventh Edward, his cousin Wilhelm and even some Boston Cabots-that is a story made more remarkable by the absence of any evidence that Rosa operated sub rosa. By sheer elbow-grease, gaiety and culinary cunning, she became, she says, and remains, the outstanding cook of her time...
...have heard much talk of systems and formulae. Most of it seems to me sheer nonsense. To some extent education may be aided by system, but more often will be hindered by it. No two men are exactly alike. Among the Satellites these differences are enormous. Yet all systems assume a false uniformity. The unit of education is the individual, and the great problem of education is to awaken him. I believe the high reputation Dravrah has in the outside world rests on just this: that they really see the problem, and are trying to solve it. Mirza...