Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greetings Sir--In glancing casually through our files, we chanced to read your name in connection with a triviality of $900. The discovery was amazing, a sheer piece of luck, which we wish you to share. Nothing could be more painful to the management than that non-settlement of this peccadillo, this bagatelle, this merest nothing, should prey upon your conscience. We assure you, therefore, it is absolutely payable immediately. A check for this drollery will close your most desirable account, and we insist on this lest its postponement give you anxiety. Solicitously yours...
...house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then, as others do not know, that the whole shining structure of Social Service is founded on pitiful sham and sheer impracticability. David Worcester...
Shot from sheer rock and broke...
...Singapore base. To talk about this country's being provocative is sheer nonsense. Out of 352 warships building or projected, our contribution is 20. We have no lust of conquest; we have no desire for more territory; all we want is peace to protect and develop our trade and the territory we have got. No gesture is needed to show that Britain is a peaceable country...
...recent years has appealed to Harvard quite so much as Dr. Fosdick. His powerful and open treatment of subjects which have too long been obscured by superstition, ceremonialism, and sheer mummery, appeals to the critically-minded undergraduate. There is a feeling about Fosdick's work that he preaches nothing that he does not believe. He has been received at the University with an enthusiasm which perhaps has added to the sombre conviction that Harvard is a college of atheists...