Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference as a whole decided upon the material to be used, the inclusion of stories and poems in the book is based only upon sheer literary merit...
...levy "indirect taxes" on the rich- the securities, luxury and automobile taxes. Next it straddles by increasing the postal rates, which affect all classes. It resorts to such highly experimental measures as trying to see whether the Government can step in and seize one-third of every estate-a sheer impossibility where the "estate" is literally in the stocking of a tight-fisted French peasant family. Finally it proposes to save 150% more in Government expenditures than the experts of M. Doumer believe possible...
...traveler from Italy bores upward into Switzerland through the great Mount Cenis tunnel, he comes upon a land where peace seems a foregone conclusion from the sheer stillness of its lakes and the immobile vastness of its mountains. There the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations is appropriately found in that most peaceful of Swiss cities, Geneva. Exotic female visitors by the dozen, score and million cry out, "How perfect!" and the slightly world-weary assistants of Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League since its inception respond, "How dull...
...annual total for all New York newspapers is estimated to be at least $1,000,000. I hesitate to think what future generations will think of a twentieth century society which permitted such a practice. I know of no waste chargeable against management which compares with that in sheer futility. Labor would gain more by voluntarily giving up this tax on society than it could possibly lose. It cannot profit labor to know that some of its workers live off such a tribute levied against industry...
...Yale threatened almost always; Harvard never, really, even once; but time and again, with his back to its wall and with the Bulldog's teeth almost on his throat, John Harvard yanked himself away and, by sheer fighting spirit, denied the New Haven warrior his due."--Melville E. Webb Jr., Boston Globe...