Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thompson restaurants "attract by sheer pull of good food, cleanliness, purity, service, prices ailways kept down, even in the War." Based on these principles, the Thompson Restaurants, now 103, have spread into all principal cities from Milwaukee to New Orleans, from Providence to Kansas City. In 1921, the volume of business exceeded $15,000,000. Mr. Thompson, also in the grocery business, has netted a fortune. Thirty years ago he was a downstate Illinois farmer...
...Thompson restaurants "attract by sheer pull of good food, cleanliness, purity, service, prices ailways kept down, even in the War." Based on these principles, the Thompson Restaurants, now 103, have spread into all principal cities from Milwaukee to New Orleans, from Providence to Kansas City. In 1921, the volume of business exceeded $15,000,000. Mr. Thompson, also in the grocery business, has netted a fortune. Thirty years ago he was a downstate Illinois farmer...
...mind that sees something to be done not done before, and the way or various available ways to the accomplishing of the new thing. And in Dr. Eliot's hands mere facts, mere statistics, the vast fruits of his own and others' research, do not remain sheer knowledge, but are utilized as soon as practicable, being converted by him from dead data into raw material for the manufacture of new and living experiments. And such has been the power of this remarkable gift, that without apparent effort, without even the burning enthusiasm which marks reformers, but with the steady, serene...
...seems to me unfair to inflict the penalty of probation on men whose grades average C or better because they may have taken two or three cuts a week. They are guilty of negligence in a petty way. But should they suffer the same penalty as those who through sheer neglect of work or lack of intelligence have failed to get their two C's and a D? I think not. Why not make the punishment fit the crime and forbid any cutting among the offenders? HENRY W. ABBOT...
...sheer meaninglessness of 350,000 multiplied by 186,000 miles...