Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides several vague and misleading phrases, such as "cultural sensations," "sheer ugly effects," and "specific thoughts", there is one point which is quite inaccurate. The Harvard Glee Club is a choral organization and, I am afraid, would fail to bring to light subtle harmonies in a Brahms symphnoy! H. C. Schmidt...
...sheer personal triumph none of these occasions compared with a demonstration last week when Governor Murray shot across the Red River bridge he had fought for last summer and led a motorcade of 300 cars back to his Texas birthplace. Along the 40-mi. route to Collinsville, Texas farmers turned out to cheer him in the rain. Col. William Easterwood came from Dallas to Collinsville to introduce him to a huge crowd as "our next President." About the streets "Murray-For-President" banners flapped in the drizzle. An Oklahoma band played "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon...
Face the Music slows up toward the end by the sheer weight of its extravagance in a courtroom scene in the Earl Carroll manner, but it would be a churlish critic indeed who would not admit that it is the most impressive musical show in town and one of the two funniest...
Although featured by casualties that occurred during, as well as before the game, the contest was a spectacular one, Harvard playing fast, well-planned hockey and Dartmouth, in contract, relying chiefly upon sheer strength and individual effort. As was to be expected, the Hanoverians laid special emphasis upon body checking and the strategy wan productive numerous spills and penalties. On one occasion, there were only two Dartmouth players on the ice in addition to the goal-tender, Hawkes. The latter, it might be added, more than did his share in defending the Big Green net, handing out numerous checks...
...What is the use? I ask you what is the use of writing? When this fellow can write like this. There's no room for us.' He would go on groaning. Then he would, after a time, spring up, holding his book. 'Listen to this!' he would exclaim in sheer joy, laughing with it as if with his whole body. 'By God,' he would cry out, 'there was never anything like this...