Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when the island is inaccessible, the St. Kildans maintained communication with the outside world by means of "sea messages." Letters placed in strong wooden boxes were thrown from the sheer cliffs. The prevailing westerly winds generally carried these to the Hebrides or the mainland of Scotland in one week. For hundreds of years St. Kilda has belonged to the MacLeods, who, living on the nearly as rigorous Isle of Skye, have seen nothing untoward in life on St. Kilda (Norman...
...having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior. "Preposterous!" said Mrs. Brady's sister, Mrs. John Cavanagh of Norwalk, Conn. "A lie and sheer nonsense!" announced Mrs. Brady's secretary in London...
...Journal, like all other Hearstpapers, could get scarcely a line of theatrical advertising. Following the disastrous Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago (1903) Hearst papers cartooned the showmen Marc Klaw and Abraham Lincoln Erlanger sitting in electric chairs. A Hearst boycott by virtually every important producer was the result. By sheer nerve and persistence Zit placated Erlanger, broke the boycott...
...describe this phenomenon, but not explain it. Something happened to the Adams blood or brain 150 years ago, lifted them from obscure respectability to international fame. Ever since, they have "maintained a pre-eminent position, due neither to great wealth nor to a hereditary title, but to character and sheer intellectual ability...
...effects of mighty tragedy, of the inscrutably deep character of the chancellor, all are obtained without the use of clumsy mass-action: no wielder of rhetorical thunders. Meyer concentrates, impresses with fine delineation rather than overwhelms with sheer quantity and force. His is the method of the finished artist: but he does not let artistry crowd out the living appeal of his work, and the latter has by no means lost its vigor in the English Version...