Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During World War I, aged 17, he tried to enlist in the Belgian army, was caught by the Germans and interned. After the war, he took a law degree, successfully defended union leaders and Socialists. "He wins juries by sheer weight," said one Brussels judge. "They think such a big man can't be wrong." By 1933 he had become the leader of Socialism's extreme left wing, chiefly because there he found more opportunities than anywhere else. Said he: "It is not sufficient to be right, we also want to be victorious ... As for the majority...
...opposing the idea of taxing every girl in College each year, we believe that the kind of News Radcliffe wants to read will be achieved only through the sheer necessity of having to go out and attract subscribers. It should be the job of the News to make every girl here want to read the paper. We believe that a continuation of the present compulsory subscription requirement would produce, in the long run, exactly the opposite effect. We believe that the improvement of the News in the last few weeks has been directly caused by the staff's sudden realization...
...electric force in Van Gogh's art was sheer color. Describing his famed Night Café-in which a green billiard table squats like a beast under the bright yellow lights of a red room-he could say without the least self-consciousness: "I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green." When he was very ill, he sent his brother a self-portrait head which seems to burn like an electric bulb, with nerves for filaments. "You must look at it for some time," he wrote. "You will see, I hope...
...Apparatus carried out its determination is described in the last, galloping pages of Conspirator-a novel that is too much of a sheer thriller to attain real literary stature, but much too brilliantly written to be classed with ordinary whodunits...
...cases acknowledged. Finally, as a measure to improve the quality of minor sports teams, squads having excellent but not perfect records should receive major letters. Such flexibility in the awarding of the "H" would go a long way towards reducing the number of unfair cases that now exist through sheer tradition and bureaucracy...