Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after death. Lacking evidence, a minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...
...Rollins is proud of Sally Stearns (TIME, June 22), who coxswained our varsity crew when it beat Manhattan College on the Harlem. The first girl coxswain that ever steered an intercollegiate race won her "R" by sheer merit and not by way of a publicity stunt. For three years she never missed a clay at the crew house, substituting for male coxswains whenever they didn't show up. Last year she was the best coxswain available, but the coach and Athletic Committee feared ridicule from "turned-up-nosed" males if she was permitted to participate in what had always...
...events, the entrants at the Randalls Island meet were, by & large, as competent as the entrants in the same events will be at Berlin. This does not mean that the U. S. will win all twelve events at Berlin. Handicaps of ocean crossing and new conditions, added to the sheer weight of numbers, will make five or six Olympic championships gratifying. After the second installment of the meet-which, watched by as many people as the little Randalls Island Stadium would hold, went comparatively smoothly -66 competitors were named as U. S. track & field delegates to the Olympic Games. Notable...
...Stand Condemned (London Films). A wounded officer in a Moscow hospital, on telling a nurse with whom he is in love how much he hates war profiteers, learns that she is engaged to one. Starting with this situation, which might lead almost anywhere, I Stand Condemned develops, presumably from sheer force of cinematic habit, into semi-conventional spy melodrama. A complicated web of circumstantial evidence makes it look as if the young officer were guilty of treason. The profiteer gives the testimony that clears...
...advance work in stirring up church interest wherever the little yellow man was booked. Before Kagawa had traveled very far, many people heard that his messages, mostly about "the love principle of Christ," were almost incomprehensible, delivered with a squeaky voice in a heavy Japanese accent. Nevertheless, out of sheer curiosity many a citizen obtained a free ticket to see the man who had been allowed in the U. S. through the intervention of President Roosevelt. Likewise ministers, whom he was in the habit of scolding because they do nothing but "preach, preach, preach," were eager to meet...