Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admire his Dionysian god. Briefly, the expositor shows Nietzsche as an excellent example of his own theory that a philosophy is primary an expression of the philosopher's personality. At first a pessimist because he was sick in body and mind, Nietzsche conquered the fear of pain by sheer willpower, and became thereby the greatest of optimists, which means, according to his own definition, that he learned to say YEA to everything in life. Nietzsche, by understanding himself and by courageously looking at everything in the face, helps those who study him to understand themselves and to boldly exercise free...
...fabric, is premised by almost everyone. That anyone of them should have taken his life because of financial troubles, or because of mal-adaptation to his physical or his social environment, does not seem to have occurred to any commentator on the phenomenon. Novalis, who in reality died of sheer nostalgia because he was not born a Greek, has been said to have been the victim of a mal de siecle, and the four undergraduates in question, who probably had at least equally valid reasons for departing this life, must be found to have died from a social cancer that...
...this large expense, and expert service, which the Harvard Business Library now stands ready to assume, as a matter of sheer helpfulness to the business men of Boston. As for Councillor Fitzgerald's complaint that business men will have to go to Brighton to secure this aid, the truth is, of course, that no such embarrassment is anticipated. Under the agreement the Librarians of the two institutions are to work out plans and regulations providing for the most direct delivery service that can possibly be attained. All any citizen needs to do, in order to secure special assistance, will...
Lady Maud Hoare, wife of Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, superintended last week the packing of a small week-end bag. Into it went two nightgowns and three sets of undergarments, all of sheerest silk. Then a sheer afternoon gown. Finally a set of especially made featherweight aluminum toilet articles...
Never before in the history of scales has such a tremendous undertaking taken place in America. Rising sheer above the frozen waters, ice covered, of the lake discovered by Champlain and called after hind, Lake Champlain, rises Mt. Slowly, towering to the full glory of its two thousand feet...