Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home youth is led, through the ideas of his parents, to regard society as static and immovable. College exposes him to more liberal thought; but at the same time his teachers, failing to realize that in him is the power to interpret for society by sheer inspiration the sum of knowledge, speak uncompromising dogma. By indifferently tolerating the student's enthusiasm, they tend to make him doubt his own ideals. But still persisting, youth enters the world, the exhortations of commencement orators in his cars, only to find all doors closed. Deprived of his rightful command when in the prime...
...present neutrality act is based on the assumption "that our neutral trade and our neutrality got us into the last war," Borchard asserted. "But it was not trade that got us in. It was sheer unneutrality--the official favoring of on side against the other...
Eliot in the thick of the race up until yesterday's game with Kirkland, has won its victories through sheer power. Bob Uihloin, the biggest man in House ball, and Skip Batchelder, scrappy center, are the mainstays of the line, while speedy Captain Cartor White and Ashley Trope, kicker and passer, are the outstanding backs...
...such a long period, the usual length being two week and one week time limits. When a book is charged out for a month at a time, the student is tempted to dawdle in using the book and to keep it out up to the limit through sheer inertia, while others who may need the book in short order are told that it is out, due back in a month...
Despite the best endeavors of a small group of tough, skillful, highly-paid young men, the city of Boston has never been persuaded to take professional football very seriously. Last year in Detroit, where some 20,000 people were willing to pay up to $3.30 every week out of sheer delight in professional football, the Detroit Lions finished third among the four teams in the National League's Western Division. Meanwhile, in Boston, even when George Preston Marshall's Redskins dramatically won the championship of the Eastern Division, Bostonians remained apathetic. This year disgusted Mr. Marshall pulled...