Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other reason than sheer physical limitations, the rush of American youth to the colleges that has been going on since the war could not keep up indefinitely. Reports of the numbers of new students entering universities for the past year reveal the fact that the tide has finally been checked. For the first time since the movement began, the rate of increase in enrollments is less than for the preceding year...
...sheer frenzy and unprintable vilification of debate in the Senate was barely eclipsed by that in the House. Deputy Manuel Mijares shrieked: "Morones is a octopus sucking the blood of the laboring classes, vulturing and gorging on the dupes who have elected him President of the Crom!" Deputy Aurelio Manrique began by calling President Calles a Judas and worked down through comparisons which finally became obscene. Senator Lauro C. Caloca hurled thoroughgoing curses and charged that Señor Calles when President had connived with Luis Morones in stupendous graft. Meanwhile in the Chamber of Deputies Melchor Ortega and Aurelio...
...Naval Affairs Committee as its last chairman, the late Representative Butler of Pennsylvania; 2) that publicity-seeking is not necessarily reprehensible, depending entirely on what you seek to promote, yourself or a good idea, and 3) that one is not necessarily a Big Navy man out of sheer blood-thirst, that Big Navy men might gladly become Little Navy men if all other Big Navy men would join them...
...hard. He spent weeks, months, under the patient tutelage of Lieut. Frederick H. Becker at the Curtiss Field School. He got along all right when Becker was with him. But on his first solo flight he sat frozen at the controls, and missed collision in a crowded sky by sheer...
...guide, who took the pictures, which are to be shown on Sunday, was climbing an almost perpendicular cliff on the Aiguille du Dru, which rises 12,000 feet above the Mer de Glace, in company with a young guide and an American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while the older guide ascended...