Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheer statistics of its victory over undefeated Tulane put Alabama's Crimson Tide among the country's pacemakers: 19 first downs, 336 yards gained rushing, 60 yards on four completed passes, five touchdowns...
More good news for Britons came in a speech to the 1912 Club by Sir Henry Page-Croft: "There has been much windy talk that if another war takes place it will 'end civilization.' This of course is sheer nonsense. Even if London were subjected to a pitiless hail of bombs and gas, it is childish to imagine that such frightfulness would be the end of England, much less the end of the British Empire...
This thing carries by sheer weight of numbers. And in spite of its unusual nature, the tried and true attractions are by no means omitted. There is love triumphant over sad misunderstandings; there is the mad race to effect the reconciliation. In fact, there is no questioning the quantity, and the quality is in strict keeping with the names involved...
...made the central figure of the most recent novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, whose inspirational works of fiction have made him one of the best-selling novelists in the past six years. Born 59 years ago in Columbia City, Ind., Dr. Douglas entered the field of fiction by "sheer accident in 1929, after having written sermons and essays for 25 years. His first three novels, Green Light (1934), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932), Magnificent Obsession (1929), sold more than 340,000 copies. Similar to those works in its fine moral tone, its unabashed sentimentality, and the neat working...
...healthy woman can wear sheer stockings and low-necked dresses in winter without catching cold because warm blood is sent coursing through her skin by a sex hormone called theelin. Principal function of theelin (Greek theelis, female) is to make a woman womanly. It is elaborated by the ovaries.* The theelin molecule contains 18 atoms of carbon, 22 of hydrogen, two of oxygen...