Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White man in the "silent purple wastes of the Arizona desert" even including the special "Indian" music. It is followed by a pseudo-historical play, "Napoleon's Barber" by Arthur Caesar, of a familiar pattern. The third play, "Goat Alley" by Ernest Howard Culbertson, is saved from being sheer melodrama by its characterization. Floyd Dell's scintillating little comedy "Sweet and Twenty" and "Tickless Time" by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, though the latter is more or less trick writing, are highly amusing and the first notable plays of the group...
...that with such ammunition, they may not only do their duty, but also salve any personal grievances against the Seniors. And anyone who wishes to hear his name immortalized at the end of a "regular Harvard cheer" has the one chance in his life to accomplish it by sheer generosity...
...Sheer fighting spirit, combined effectually with a stroke which remained crisp and powerful throughout the gruelling mile and seven-eights course, gave the Freshman crew a well-deserved victory over Coach Muller's University eight Saturday afternoon on the basin. Nearly, two lengths of open water bore mute testimony to the decisive character of the defeat as the shells filed across the finish line...
Probably the majority of those who real History for pleasure do so for the sheer human interest of it. In the lives and characters, achievements and failures, woes and triumphs of past generations of people so similar to themselves in some respects, so different in others, they find a fascination which neither Natural History nor the fictitious characters of literature can equal. "The proper study of mankind is man". History pursued for such reasons may help much to broaden the mind, quicken the imagination, increase one's knowledge of human nature, and free one from the prejudices peculiar...
...boycott agitation is being engineered by interested parties. . . . Under the guise of pseudo-patriotism it is possible for the student and political agitators to intimidate the merchant classes and cause a very serious commercial loss. . . . It (Japan) has made immense and far-reaching concessions to China. . . . It is sheer effrontery . . . for the student politicians to clamor for the unconditional restoration of Liao-Tung's leased territory." The French newspaper, the Evening News, endorses the British viewpoint...