Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East and particularly New York has forgotten the young Georgia lawyer who arrived in Manhattan before the turn of the century and by sheer persuasiveness squeezed some $72,000,000 out of Wall Street to build the Hudson tubes. In those days Mr. McAdoo was a local hero. Forgotten, too, is the Secretary of the Treasury who converted Wall Street to the Federal Reserve. Only Mr. McAdoo himself seems to recall that it was no less a person than the elder Morgan who, at the outbreak of War in 1914, begged his advice on closing the Stock Exchange...
...such was and is also the chief aim of King Prajadhipok himself His Majesty made clear during his visit to the I last year in an historic statement to the press. Paradoxically, though favoring constitutional monarchy, he has remained an absolute monarch because of the reactionary power, wealth and sheer numbers of other members of the Siamese royal family. In Bangkok the sprightly, progressive little King was strongly suspected of encouraging the People's Party to oust his relatives from the enormous number of soft, well-paid jobs they held in Siam's Government. Every member of the Cabinet...
Toward a spot on the Atlantic 47 mi. west of Fastnet Light, off the tip of southern Ireland, three men were hurrying last week. They had no rendezvous. It was sheer luck that when Louis T. Reichers set his crippled monoplane down in a sea whipped up by a nasty blow, Captain George Fried of the S. S. Roosevelt, famed for his North Atlantic rescues, was there with his equally famed Chief Officer Harry Manning to send overside in a lifeboat. Chief Officer Manning yanked Pilot Reichers out of his foundering plane, unharmed save for a broken nose, a lacerated...
...ranging from the classic Gothic of the Woolworth Building, to the ultra modern emphasis upon the vertical line as exemplified in the soaring tiers of windows, and strips of concrete of the Daily News Building. The graduated indents of the older Chanin Building are in sharp contrast to the sheer lift of the new Empire State Building. showing that transition is taking place rapidly...
...here and abroad an economic boycott is of course not especially welcome. However, Japan has broken the Covenant of the League and if that body is to keep any authority at all it is bound to enforcement. Our position frees us from this duty. That this country should from sheer altruism jeopardize its financial recovery and perhaps undo the good that has come from the recent economic measures passed by Congress is most questionable...