Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last night Professor Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College faced an excited and sceptical crowd of Debating Union members, swept them off their feet by his speech, and won them over to his side by sheer power of oratory and convincing argument. The final vote of the audience was 81 to 25 in his favor, with 29 not voting...
...qualities that make him a feared halfback on the football team. He will also rest for a few weeks before reporting for hockey, but by mid-season the chunky halfback should be at his best defensive form. Down the ice, he is aggressive, breaking through the opposing line by sheer force rather than by subtle stick handling, and keeping his feet despite heavy jolting. He is at all times willing to mix things up with opposing forward lines, and he relishes nothing so much as stiff sessions of body checking...
...Boston, Ethel Leginska, one-time (TiME, May 3) disappearing pianist, led her new orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic, before fastidious New Englanders; received mingled irony and praise. As all admitted, it was the leader's orchestra, directed nerve on nerve to sheer hypnosis. In Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, the piece de resistance, Miss Leginska played the piano part, leaving the orchestra, as critics commented, with no mother to guide it, in spite of which it revealed euphony, balance, potential flexibility. A tremendous handicap was the acoustics of Mechanic's Hall. Tumultuous applause from the conductor...
...Pingree and Mr. Marks are both sincere. They are not merely filling space for money and sensationalism. Yet both in the present case are talking to the moon. A man can go from college into teaching and by the sheer force of his personality make himself a successful teacher at a college or a university. It has been done and it is being done. Yet that man will never succeed in reaching the heights he might have attained with a truer knowledge of his subject. One must know a profession in these days of excessive competition to continue long...
...much of Dr. Collins' pungent, cutting talk is the sheer tripe of a loquacious boudoir professional? How well does this exceedingly articulate if not glib man of the big-city clinic know the average human being...