Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detective bureaus of the world, he has probably contributed more to the science of detecting crime than anyone living; but it is for his achievements single-handed in his pooneer days that he is most famous. Mr. Burns has crowded into the sixty-two years of his life enough sheer adventure to satisfy the authors of twenty mystery-thrillers. His name is one to conjure with all over the world as a detective who has never missed his man. He may speak tonight of hunting spies as head of the Secret Service, or he may tell of the capture...
...called, unnecessarily. "Priapus and the Pool" Uncouth., essentially Roman divinity, Priapus seems of late to have gained many followers far afield both in literature and music. But those who grub in books for the unwholesome or the obscene (Vice Commissioners take note!) will be deeply disappointed by the sheer beauty of these poems. The title is inappropriate. The poems themselves are as lovely as any love-lyrics I know. Their cadences fall like sudden, cooling rain and bring "another April to the soul...
...numbered among the labor agitators, the Non-Partisan Leaguers, and other active ultra-modernists, is it necessarily because they have failed to consider these new movements? Such a conclusion smugly assumes that the movements are necessarily right, and that a failure to champion them is due to sheer ignorance. It is not beyond imagination to suppose that the college student might think otherwise, and that he shuns them not so much from ignorance as form too much knowledge...
...skillful in the management of his plot, that we rarely feel inclined to remember that the story is not actually new. It is effective from an emotional standpoint, and not by any means bad prose. For description, Mr. Cleaves' account of a bull fight is vivid, and effective. For sheer nonsense, "Hicks the Half Back" is undeniably funny, and the reader laughs shame-facedly in spite of his conviction that the article is rather beneath his notice. And the naive way in which the story stops when the writer's well of humour goes dry is not the worst thing...
...best of all is the firm knowledge that we are backing a team that can stage two touchdowns and a "come-back" not through breaks, but by sheer football. Stock in undergraduate optimism has risen many points...