Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orator he is given to long words, not always correctly used, and Latin legalisms (hence his nickname). He often talks With a mouthful of tobacco which gives him a "hot-potato" enunciation. On the Senate floor he is an almost indefatigable speaker, winning many a point by sheer persistence. Second only to Alabama's Heflin is he as a "darkey story" teller. He is a "regular" Southern Democrat in his votes. In the minority, no famed legislation bears his name. His manner is at times brusque and rough. He is not a keen politician. Impartial observers rate him thus...
...next week-end found a highly-rated Dartmouth team sweeping into Cambridge and running amuck of a driving Crimson offense. It was sheer power which enabled the University eleven to carry the ball practically the whole length of the gridiron in the closing minutes of play and add the final touchdown to a glorious 19 to 7 victory. The Green score was the result of a clever aerial attack which frequently baffled the Cambridge defenders...
...difficult to remember any two foregatherings of the nations which are in greater contrast than this present conference and that which has gone down in history as the Dawes Conference. There was politics and to spare in the Plan which was drawn up in 1924, but for sheer horse-trading no meeting of the representatives of the nations in recent years has compared with this...
...backward glance at the Winter Season just closed in Buenos Aires reveals that the outstanding event was not the Hoover visit (TIME, Dec. 24), but the sudden and epochal decision of paunchy, prosperous Argentine males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands...
...seems, the fiery mess is continually boiling over from the kettle's snouty spout. First, a trickle of fat sparks. Then the trickle turns to a stream, the stream reaches the circumference of a man's body -a stream of molten steel with a long, sheer drop of 30 feet. The stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become...