Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further difficulty faces the Graduate School in the sheer momentum in the tide of ability turning into other than educational fields and the consequent general low level of ability among students in the School. That low level, however, the University can raise by its own direct action...
...professor is right. But if he were pounding the editorial typewriter he would think long, long thoughts before attempting criticism that to many professors is sheer impertinence. College administrators, the nation over, seem to be awakening slowly to the need for free speech in the collegiate press, but college faculties, as such, lag lamentably in this liberalism...
...Crickard, without doubt the most brilliant runner of the Harvard 1931 football machine. Sheer speed, plus lightening quick shifting make him a terror for opposing tacklers, and a spectacular thrill for the grandstand...
...often say it was because of a "raid" and increase the feeling against bears. That the move was a little late seemed implied by the lack of differentiation last week between raids and real shortselling when bears were attacked. A raid is definitely aimed to depress a stock through sheer force or by knowledge of stock that will come on the market if the price can be shoved down a little. A legitimate short sells on values, feels that time and earnings reports will adjust the price downward. The difference is the same as between an operator and an investor...
...restored to its old value ($4.8665) to protect British foreign investments. So the pound was forced to par. Interest rates at London were fixed high to attract foreign deposits. A $200,000,000 credit was obtained in New York. It was never used. Britain's sheer determination to restore sterling's prestige was a chief factor in doing so. Par was reached when the Treasury contracted to sell gold to all comers. To prevent hoarding of gold sovereigns, pound notes were not redeemable at their face value in gold, but if a Briton could collect about...