Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveling around the country in a big wagon filled with 20 trunks of merchandise. He went to McCall's in 1919, the year its publisher boasted that the "wolf wasn't at McCall's door, it was way inside." Without additional financing and by sheer merchandising ability he doubled sales in four years, pushed them to a peak of $14,000,000 in 1930. But neither he nor President Noah was willing to go into American Woolen on salary alone. They made a deal to collect a bonus on all that American Woolen earned over...
Obviously Prisoner Rao had not set up his dominion over administrators and inmates of Welfare Island by sheer weight of personality. His outside backer, it appeared, was a certain Tammany district leader, identified by the Evening Post as a poker-faced man named James J. Hines, powerful throughout Harlem and Times Square as well as in his own Morningside Heights district. Hines was responsible for John Francis Curry's advance to Tammany leadership...
...professional hockey games Ottawa and Winnipeg crowds respond to scientific team-play. In Manhattan clever work by visitors often wins great applause. Detroit and Chicago spectators are prone to throw eggs when matters displease them. But nowhere is sheer roughness on the ice a greater drawing card than in bloodthirsty Boston. There one night last week fans got more than their money's worth when the Toronto Maple Leafs trounced the Boston Bruins...
There is a popular belief that when traditional football rivals meet for their Big Game sheer fighting spirit may help the weaker team beat the stronger. That was the only possible theory by which Navy could have expected to defeat Army last week at Philadelphia, a feat it had not accomplished since 1921. So intense was Navy's will to win, it led Army 7-to-6 at the end of the first period...
...long extinct. Weather, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, slow-spoken, thin-faced secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed sun observer, flatly affirmed before the Academicians that weather repeats itself in cycles of 23 years. All the assembled scientists realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer theory but was solidly documented by weather records for months, years, decades. Dr. Abbot studies solar radiation from his Washington station while his men study it from such farflung vantage points as Table Mountain, Calif.; Mt. Montezuma, Chile; Mount St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. With the help of a "brass...