Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caesar and Cleopatra is not "Egypt" and there is not enough art used to make the audience forget that. If, however, the audience is willing to overlook the irregal appearance of Claudette Colbert and the small town chattiness of Roman teaparties, the picture is a good spectacle. For sheer sensual spectacularity it would be hand to beat the scene where Anthony is first seduced. Food and wine, ballet and flowers with a final crescendo of the music and the solemn beating of the chronandros as the galley puts out to sea is very hard to forget...
...sure will make startling news this winter. As set forth in his famed dissent in the Oklahoma Ice case (TIME, April 4, 1932), he believes that the states should have a free hand as laboratories of economic experimentation. Yet the Federal experiment of NRA displeases him by its sheer size...
...physically able, is compelled to exercise at least three times a week. Indeed, no consideration what soover is given to the man whose financial straits force him to do physical work either in the Union or in some office or store. If he complies, with the existing regulation, sheer exhaustion inhibits effective study, and excessive physical strain undermines his general health. On the other hand, if he fails to exercise regularly, he is automatically put on probation at the end of his Sophomore year. Wearied by the combination of physical work and athletic activity, he is in no position...
...which he told the people of Hawaii that if the H.S.P.A. lost the suit it would of course do them no good and also that if they won the suit the continental United States sugar markets would be automatically closed to them. Of course this last contention is sheer bunk; and most of the AAA people knew it. But the purpose of Mr. Sturges' speech was to attempt to fool the people of Hawaii into believing that the Island would be economically ruined if the H.S.P.A. won! The Islands were not fooled but were enraged. Officials in Washington admitted...
...thus wasted. The fact that attendance has grown may or may not be indicative of an increasing interest in religion, but it at least substantiates the claim that Harvard's Chapel services mean far more than Princeton's, wherein men read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe, and snore, through sheer boredom...