Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over his last year's play. He has, in addition, one of the best match-playing temperaments on the team. Five has been a varying position since the opening of the season, with R. P. Rose '25 now filling it. No player on the team can approach Rose in sheer power of strokes, but he is correspondingly the most erratic member of the team. At one time he is brilliant, at other times, scarcely mediocre...
...World as one of the great souls that has been born on this planet to express the will of providence, to demonstrate with all human firmness the truth of the eternal moral order, and to lay bare the guilt of man against man which in the outcome of sheer ignorance and moral degeneration...
...except when a people rose in its wrath to hand "les aristocrats" to the lampposts, they changed not at all. But the cataclysm of 1914 destroyed traditions of play as of rank. With the disintegration of political parties after the war, Europe has been dominated by individuals. By sheer force of personality Mussolini has gathered a national following, and Herr Hitler has apparently attempted to follow that precedent. Premier Poincare appears to be the government of France, as Lenin and Trotsky are of Russia. Indeed, it would seem that statecraft has suddenly become a manipulation of those personalities...
Sometime toward the end of the Elizabethen Age, Anthony Munday presented a play for the approval of the National Board of Review, a position then held by Sir Edmund Tilney. Good Sir Edmund--whether from sheer spite or momentary indisposition, reporters were unable to ascertain--grasped his blue pencil with a shriek of rage, and by means of sparkling marginal notes commanded drastic revision. Four accomplished dramatists hurried to his assistance, bore away the torn and bleeding playlet and revamped it to a more conventional pattern. Fortunately for modern scholars, one of the attending surgeons left the results...
...Montreal Mr. George burst into golf. A correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor saw him make three perfect shots-a long, straight drive, a magnificent approach and a superb and final putt. Moved by sheer admiration the correspondent approached...