Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have taken property from the railroads without due process of law because it arbitrarily pooled the pension liabilities of different roads. More important, he ruled that pensioning railway employes had nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce. Said he: "It is an attempt for social ends to impose by sheer fiat non-contractual incidents upon the relation of employer and employe, not as a rule or regulation of commerce and transportation between the states but as a means of assuring a particular class of employes against old age dependency...
That there is indeed a king of kings, though George V eschews the title, is never so apparent as when His Majesty draws to London the fabulous elect of India's native rulers, kings in their own realms. In wealth, sheer undevaluable silver, gold and gems, nearly every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed...
...Widener reading-room is a palace of gloom by day--and there have been rumors to that effect--by night it has all the gay warmth of Grent's Tomb. For the most part this condition is due to an antique system of illumination, which, to call faulty, is sheer flattery...
...General Staff this order seemed the acme of moderation, sheer leaning over backward, but the French cabinet saw it as increasing the risk of a war-provoking incident. In Paris, German Air Minister Goring is feared capable of any madness, and Realmleader Hitler's head is rated hot. On orders from French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, himself a wartime aviator, the General Staff order was suspended and "for the present" French frontier guards will write down a description of each German peeping plane which will then be solemnly protested by French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet at Berlin...
...sheer distortion of plain words out of their plain meaning this could scarcely be surpassed, and no such feat was attempted in Warsaw by Colonel Slawek. What he has done is to make a tolerably neat system out of the loose ends of Marshal Pilsudski's erratic and unsystematic but popular and effective Military Dictatorship...