Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservatives with little or no detailed purpose remain in power through sheer inertia", declared Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, in an exclusive CRIMSON interview in the Parents' House at Groton yesterday afternoon. "My fight is with the leadership in this present crisis. I hope to have the support of all progressive thinking people of the nation in carrying this fight...
...giving a definite opinion on a controversial subject. Like some others, I regarded this hesitancy as the result of sitting on the fence too long, which would seem likely to result in emasculation. The glaring grammatical errors in this review seemed to suggest that another factor was involved: the sheer inability to write English. Assuming that these are due to slipshod proof-reading, and passing over such phrases as "ratiocinative circumstances" etc. we come to the real meaning of the review...
...caves to store their wine tuns. Something in one of the cellars attracted Dr. Maiuri's attention. He picked at a wall, found that it blocked a trapezium-shaped passageway 20 ft. high, 10 ft. wide at the bottom, 40 ft. long. Lateral tunnels led to the sheer face of the Cumaean Rock. The tunnels admitted light...
Japan's Backers. Dismayed by the sheer number of its unheeded protests, the U. S. State Department was silent about Japan's land grab in Manchuria last week. Not so the French Foreign Office. Ever so tactfully in their gilded and ornate Quai D'orsay, French undersecretaries assured reporters that "the French Government's reaction, on the whole, is favorable...
King Albert of the Belgians, experienced mountaineer, scaled the sheer pinnacle of Crozzon di Brenta, 10,247 ft. high, one of the most difficult climbs in the Lombard Alps. It took him ten hours...