Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of the little Viennese boy with new shoes [TIME, Dec. 30] expresses more eloquently than anything I have ever seen, or read, or heard, the blessed fruits of giving. The response of sheer unrestrained joy by that little fellow cannot be measured in dollars of giving. To get such a return for his money has the giver getting all the better of the bargain...
...driven his Mercury some 35,000 miles and slept in many a hotel bed too short for his 6 ft. 2 in. No tank-town tourney was too small for him; he played in 44 big & little ones, a grind that would wear out most pro golfers. By sheer persistence, he had earned $12,000 in prize money (compared to $50,000 his first season as a tennis pro). His score varied between seven under par and seven over par. Says Vines: "Tennis got too tough for me. I was beginning to age, and Don Budge helped me decide...
...assure you that the work is not only of sheer beauty and loveliness from beginning to end, and one of this composer's ripest works, but one of the gems of modern chamber music...
...Ensign David Flohr of Banana River, Fla., passed along a current idiom. In a letter to LIFE, praising a picture of Rita Hayworth in a sheer nightgown, he cried: "She's really Mello-Rooney, Viddle...
Drummers' Stock. In Atlanta, the Cordelia Hosiery Shop displayed 300 pairs of sheer black nylons as customer bait, within 48 hours sold them all to Salvation Army lassies in town for a convention...