Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Watkins Glen, N. Y. last week State park officials found a deer perched on a narrow rock ledge jutting out from the face of a sheer 83-ft. cliff. What would happen if it tried to go backward or forward could be seen by looking down. In the gorge 35 ft. below lay the broken body of the deer's mate. Only hope of rescue seemed to lie in throwing a bridge from the chasm's opposite bank. But the park-men knew that their first move would probably startle the deer into leaping off the ledge...
...reaching Alaska. Winnie Mae thundered out of Moscow a half-day ahead of schedule. But an oil leak was causing the robot to misbehave and Pilot Post had practically all the burden of solo flying. Twice he got lost in dirty weather over Siberian wilderness, but found Novosibirsk by sheer skill and luck. He had stretched his lead to 17 hr. upon bounding...
With the pound at this time worth $4.10 (after rising in the past few days from $4.01) Governor Harrison reputedly broached to Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England a pegging together of dollar & pound at $4.30. This of course was sheer horse trading, the British having mentioned $3.50 as their figure. During the next few days Governor Harrison sat tight, watched mysterious forces, about which Britons thought he knew a great deal, depress the dollar so violently on the day the Conference opened that the pound was forced...
...Perhaps another year of tennis depression will be necessary to broaden the minds of the Lawn Tennis officials. A second possibility is that the officials themselves might be replaced for the benefit of the players. Another alternative is that the American team, and Vines in particular, will by the sheer force of their astonishing play, win in spite of themselves...
Alice in Wonderland, superbly sublimates the quality of plain orneriness. He puts more sheer malice in "For God's sake!'' than most actors could express with a snake-whip. The "Centipede's Club" has tried to smuggle a letter out to the Governor. And although Robert Locket has taken the blame, the warden has ordered all to be flogged over the Iron Horse. Groaning, whimpering from their beating, the boys unreasonably accuse Locket of being a stool pigeon. Defending him, Red arranges a light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes...