Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much respected but disillusioned Sir, what do you think we come for? Do you think we sit and wait for two hours before the game, and then usher for the sheer pleasure of serving You Diminutive Highness? Of course we come to see the game! Only that inducement could make us submit to the degradations of personal dignity which we undergo at the hands of your embryo top-sergeants! Ernest Fasano...
...will be watching today is the ability of the Crimson outfit to gain consistently through the line. It seemed to us that the lightness of Bates' backs held the Lewiston outfit to a small yardage more than the play of the Harvard linemen. The little fellows were stopped by sheer weight...
...Birmingham, Ala. combined, jam-packed the stone-cliffed canyon of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for half a day last week. Three out of every ten New Yorkers were there, 2,000,000 strong. They fainted, they cheered, their feet hurt, their clothes got mussed. At 58th Street their sheer bulk bulged through splintering plate glass windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many people gathered anywhere in the nation since Armistice Day. Nobody in town, not even the blind news...
...slack period. We also found that we had granted 81% of all the business credit applied for. ... I want to suggest that other bankers analyze all of their policies ... be prepared to answer critics with facts. . . . 'That every bank should sell stock to the R. F. C. is sheer nonsense. Apparently we are going to get a black mark if we don't apply for something whether we want it or not. The R. F. C. is not a liberal lender. If it wants to do something for the banks who have borrowed, let it release the excess...
...becoming metaphysical. Efforts to fit new discoveries to demonstrable theory, or to perform the converse, simply pile paradox on paradox. While U. S. probers have been mostly content to spin new riddles by unearthing new facts in their laboratories, European physicists have tried more & more of late, by sheer sweat of mind, to coordinate, to reconcile, to reduce the areas of conflict among observed phenomena. Last week U. S. readers of the British scientific journal Nature were apprised of an important reconciliation which Professor Max Born, theoretical physicist of the University of Gottingen, had achieved by juggling mathematical symbols...