Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheer intellectual worth, there isn't a department of Harvard which nears the Law School. Whether its graduates keep counsel with Dupont or bend Roosevelt's ear, they represent a perfection in training that has gone far in maintaining Harvard's greatness as a university...
...feet, both dials registering alike. But as it crossed towering George Washington Bridge, the reading on the new altimeter dropped to 500 feet. Few miles farther on the plane banked sharply, headed for the Palisades, still flying at 800 feet by the barometric altimeter. As it approached the sheer bluff the other needle quivered, then dropped to 250 feet as the ship passed over...
...interested in. That is why he drew so constantly the dancers of the Paris Opera. The one painting of a "Ballet Dancer" on display illustrates his characteristic treatment of this subject. The figure, which is light and graceful, wears a light blue dress with spots here and there of sheer color. It is ironic indeed that he envelopes the whole in a romantic, pure atmosphere, for the truth was the dancers as a whole lived a very immoral life and were often almost vicious in their vices. Another typical Degas painting is the race track scene "They're Off." Here...
...travelogue of such superb beauty and excitement that it makes the opposite qualities in most African travelogues seem the result of sheer malevolence on the part of their makers...
Husky Nancye Wynne went to bed for 24 hours, then lumbered out to limber her muscles on Manhattan's River Club court. Her compatriot, 19-year-old John Bromwich, Australia's either-handed, both-handed tennis topnotcher, wandered around Broadway until sheer ennui forced him to do a little volleying on an indoor court. Blond Sidney Wood, Wimbledon winner in 1931 who has been trying for a comeback this summer after two years of minding his nuggets in a California gold mine, visited his relatives in Manhattan. California's Alice Marble, U. S. women's champion...