Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...internal temperature of 20,000,000° C. is enough. Sir James Jeans thinks it must be 40,000,000° or 50,000,000°, adding that a pinhead heated to this point would radiate energy at the rate of three quadrillion horsepower, knock down fortresses by sheer pressure of radiation (TIME, Nov. 19). Last week a Harvard physicist named T. E. Sterne offered the electrochemists calculations boosting the inside temperatures of ordinary stars (the sun is an ordinary star...
After the dam ceremony, while motoring to Las Vegas, Nev. to re-entrain for the coast, Senator Pittman suggested driving up nearby Mount Charleston. The gravel road, just built by CCCsters, winds around sheer shoulders with room for only one car. Ten miles up there was a hair-raising moment as the President's car was turned around, with the President in it and only a foot to separate him from a yawning precipice...
...student. Germany was then the place to go to study English, although the work was largely philological and abstruse. He draws fascinating portraits of some of his instructors and colleagues there. Consistently an upholder of the liberal, appreciative approach to literature at Harvard Perry confesses that the discipline of sheer grinding on etymological facts and tables was a tonic...
Indians while admitting that in the provinces natives will at once have somewhat greater freedom, denounce the Constitution as "Sheer sham!" because all vital powers are reserved to the Viceroy, thus permitting Britain to keep India hog-tied indefinitely...
...There was no thought of orb or crown When the single, wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom hailed him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither favour nor excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed...