Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have maintained strict silence. A few solons, it is true, have booed the idea as foolish. It seems that there is a suspicion current among the majority of these men that light-headedness scientifically obtained and tabublated, would be interested too literally in non-scientific circles, and out of sheer group loyalty they feel they must ignore the issue...
...high as the $18,634 average just now reported. We doubt very much whether the professional earnings of all the men at the Boston bar average half that amount. But there are shining rewards at the top of the profession! They attract all youths and sundry. Some, through sheer ability no matter what school they came from, will attain the goal. But many among them, if we may credit the dictum of the Boston lawyer here cited, will never spin the churn themselves, but ironically will greatly help others to win it. By reason of the incompetent advice which incompetent...
...discovery lies in the fact that each figure in the group is painted with detailed accuracy, and that nearly all the Englishmen were well known philanthropists. The state of Georgia, Dr. Rand points out, is unique in that it was founded, not for commercial purposes, but from sheer philanthropy by prominent Englishmen, many of them of the nobility. It is expected that a copy of the picture will be hung in a prominent spot in the State House at Atlanta...
...coach is an inspirer of men. Look at the team which he took to the Indoor Intercollegiates last year. Of 29 men who made the trip, only nine had won their letters in preparatory school. All the rest Coach Farrell had taken as novices and by sheer force of personality had inspired those men to outdo themselves in practice until they had become proficient. There was not a man on the team who would not have concurred with me in this estimate. To the football team he is carrying that same inspiration...
...student government boards, winning votes, signing petitions, leading cheers, etc. He is called the "flash," the "whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would snatch at an honors course if only his university offered...