Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think for sheer excellence in terseness of writing I have seldom read anything better than your account of Effie Crawford's pre-present and post-natal experiences. The condensation of economic, sociologic, psychologic, and physiologic into those brief paragraphs was indeed masterful...
...ring last week launched a new series of laws so super-drastic that even Germans long used to the rigors of Nazidom shuddered with apprehension. The first of these laws, framed by General Göring, imposes the death penalty on any German who "knowingly and unscrupulously, out of sheer selfishness or for other base motives, sends or leaves his money or other property abroad." Thus Dictator Hitler last week virtually gave himself access to privately-owned German capital abroad amounting to $800,000,000, which he can convert into foreign currencies in an emergency such...
...lost, at the outset of its brightest year since 1925. That was to Minnesota, on Andy Uram's pass for a last-minute touchdown, 14-10-7. Coached by James Phelan, who played at Notre Dame from 1915 through 1917, using an attack that stresses finesse more than sheer (and traditional) power, Washington earned its right to play in the Rose Bowl by seven victories in which its opponents scored only one touchdown, and a 14-to-14 tie with Stanford...
...view of these facts and the serious complications they illustrate, it is hard to insist that Edward for the welfare of his realm must renounce his royalty. Since the beginning of time it has been sheer folly to advise a man to change his mind about marriage. But if, as it seems, a solution is not forthcoming, the only wise move is to take a lesson from Good Queen Bess, and procrastinate. As Professor McIlwain explains, the King cannot marry Mrs. Simpson till next April anyway. And if Mr. Baldwin persists in driving out the chief obstacle to his Conservatism...
...Francisco's Mayor Angelo Rossi took the opportunity offered by settlement of an incidental warehousemen's strike to thank Mr. McGrady "on behalf of the people of San Francisco," for his "successful" efforts. But every one knew that this was sheer politeness. The Assistant Secretary had by turns persuaded and pounded tables, until local labor leaders called him Edward Ferocious McGrady. But on the main issue, whether the unions should continue to control the hiring halls (supplying any men they see fit to operators who need seamen or longshoremen), neither side gave any concession He did, however...