Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Premier Baldwin to a Conservative by-election candidate in which the Government's attitude toward Communism in industry was stated with unusual vigor: "Tha plan of the Communists ... is to promote industrial unrest with the intention of driving the workers into increasing misery and discontent until, in sheer despair, they revolt. . . . This is as cruel and callous a policy as any of which I have ever heard. ... It must be stopped. We must prevent thE Communists from misusing the power of the trade unions for their wicked ends. We have no intention of destroying trade unionism or weakening...
...positions on the forward line. E. C. Clark '27, M. N. Stanley '29, and C. D. Goady '27 are fighting for places on the second string defense. Clark displays on the ice all the same qualities that make him feared as a halfback, breaking through the opposing defense by sheer force rather than by subtle stick handling. Coady is the heaviest of the defense men and captained his Freshman team. Stanley starred as a first year skater and packs a wicked shot...
...tells you. As, for example, getting her to take dictation, which he sets forth thus: "Miss Hepplethwaite, take a letter...Why not?..Don't I pay you to take letters, or did you think I had you around here just for the sheer joy of living? ..Go ahead, be a, sport and take the letter, Martha..Well, why not?..You are the beatin...
...whole crowd going at the top of its form. It was like a scene in the anteroom of an officers' mess after dinner on guest-night with the senior subaltern as master of ceremonies. Every eye was on the Prince, every face smiling, some with sheer de light, others with wonder...
Brushing aside this question of principle, the Roman Catholic clergy pointed out the perfect technical propriety of the Vanderbilt- Marlborough annulment by the Rota, a court so august that the sheer weight of its legal machinery prevents it being set in motion except in behalf of litigants of some consequence. Said Father Parsons, editor of the Roman Catholic Weekly America, speaking over the radio at Manhattan: "Let it be remembered that the Rota has been sitting on cases such as this since 1323. For over 900 years persons having grounds for believing that their marriages are invalid have appeared before...