Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of a weak play, Elizabeth Bergner is assured full houses for the twelve weeks she will be in Manhattan. The sheer fresh artistry of an actress who uses hands, hair, feet, arms, her whole body to form pantomimic patterns, supplementing a voice which is understandable even when inarticulate, sent first-nighters at Escape Me Never! to their feet yelling "Bravo...
...than the requisite number-would vote to sustain the veto. According to the theory of responsible party government, the idea that the leader of 322 out of 434 votes in the House and 68 out of 96 votes in the Senate should find himself in this strait position was sheer extravaganza. But according to the theory of practical U. S. politics the idea was grimly realistic. For the measure on which the A. P. counted noses called for full and immediate payment of the Soldiers' Bonus, and behind the Bonus is an unbeaten organized minority which knows what...
...assume, for the sake of illustration, that the plan is pushed to actual enactment by the sheer zeal and determination of its believers. ... In the end, I suspect, there would be violent inflation - a marking up of prices of everything to figures at which the business turnover could stand a tax of $24,000,000,000 a year. At that point, the folk over 60 might be getting their $200 a month - but they would find they could not buy the automobiles they now think they could. A haircut would cost say $2 ; a sexagenarian meal of bread and milk...
...group of Harvard players who became National champions, Coach Cowles considers William P. Dixon '24, Melville P. Baker '22, and Herbert N. Rawlins, Jr. '27 as exponents of wall, corner and drop shots. Relying on skill in placing shots and using accuracy rather than sheer speed these players worked up to the top in the national ranks...
...their youth or of acquiring a technical background for a career in the world. Why they want to engage in one occupation rather than another, what values in life are important, and how they fit into the plan of the universe are questions that are neglected either from sheer indifference or a failing to appreciate their significance...