Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college activities--athletics, college periodicals and so on--has been a much truer test as a rule. Until the whole attitude of college students is overturned there can scarcely be a great change in the popular attitude; and such an overthrow, involving an end of the national distrust of sheer theory and the professional point of view, seems still afar. New York Tribune...
...this implies quite inevitably another tangent of contact between Mr. Benet and Swinburne, namely Mr. Benet's delight in taming words, in spurring and curvetting them to his desire. It is the sheer zest of youth, for Mr. Benet is young...
After this rally, the Freshmen displayed sheer desperation, and whereas they had theretofore tried end runs and every sort of open play, they uncorked a series of punishing line-bucks. Eight rushes carried them 40 yards. Jenkins made 25 yards more. Lockwood and Gehrke simply ripped up the Orange...
...below their usual aggregation. Former high school players and experienced men are notable by their absence. But Coach Blake, a former Dartmouth star, may be counted on to present a well rounded team supplying with plenty of spirit and a variety of unusual plays what it lacks in sheer weight and strength...
...prohibition in their bonnie land. Long advertisements with two grinning black cats at top and bottom are confronting the readers of Scottish newspapers demanding "a firm stand for self-determination" and in asking, in bold, black type. "Why not prohibit Pusayfoot?" Scotch blood is running hot over the sheer intemperance of the prohibi...