Word: sheerness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First prediction of the next Law School Dean has come from Walter Winchell with the suggestion in his daily column that the appointment of Federal Circuit Court Justice Calvert Magruder of Boston will soon be announced. Both the Law School and Justice Magruder called the report "sheer rumor" when asked for comment yesterday...
Said the committee: "Salaries have been determined by private treaty rather than in accordance with any recognizable plan. Under such a system, it is inevitable that the bargaining power of the individual (by no means a sure gauge of his value to the university), favoritism, brass and sheer luck would be important factors in salary determination...
...terms of sheer nose-counting, the Protestant churches still show a slight percentage gain over population increase. But, says Churchman Morrison, "numerical growth is not the only criterion. . . . We must look also at the whole cultural, political, and economic scene within which Protestantism lives. Our question will then be: Is Protestantism growing in influence and spiritual power faster than these forces and interests external to itself...
Gone: the Cheap House. The long-term prospects for U.S. housing are even foggier. The sheer cost of housing presents one almost insoluble problem. Despite prefabricators and designers like Buckminster Fuller (TIME, Feb. 11) who hope to produce houses in factories, no one has yet discovered a way to build a satisfactory house at a price everyone can afford...
...Marcel Petiot's 63 murders did not impress the atrocity-hardened French. But they were impressed by his agile defense and sheer gall last week in a trial in which his condemnation had seemed certain. Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...