Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheer immensity of such a sum would constitute the best reason why it should not exist as a political "war chest"; but enemies of Mr. George, having failed to make him disclose the significant total, began some six months ago to hound him about where the money came from in the first place...
...shirt and his chevrons. You know how he got his fancy rank, don't you? By being picked up by President Wilson, who rode roughshod over the entire Naval Board and jammed his favorite through Congress. About 200* other Navy doctors were ahead of him, in sheer ranking merit, for what was handed to Grayson on a silver platter. At that the great Wilson's puppet was almost set down hard where he belonged by the Senate...
...goes on from year to year, boats going up and boats coming down. Nothing is certain, prognostications are always falsified in the event. In sheer surprise one college called its second boat "God" because it moved in a mysterious...
...complex it grows harder to write; selection becomes a game of chance; order and emphasis grow unruly. As in The Turn of the Century, the first of his three volumes full of Our Times, Author Sullivan has managed in America Finding Herself, to make his facts behave. Again by sheer quantity of unexpected, unorthodox, incongruous and apparently unlimited information he makes his book valuable as historical data and even more valuable because reading it is amazingly good...
...Mauve Decade that the brightest stars shone, and the greatest machines rolled over all opposition. The famous "Deland Flying Wedge" of Harvard was answered by the "Guards Back", devised by George Woodruff of Pennsylvania. From 1894 on, this formation crushed Harvard teams under foot for four years. By sheer force of weight and spirit the University elevens were able to keep the score low, but the Quakers always scored enough to take the game...