Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch has an almost mystic reputation as the Man Who Can Solve Anything, the Baruch Report issued last week was widely and wrongly billed as a complete postwar blueprint. This impression was reinforced by its sheer bulk: 120 mimeographed pages, 30,000 words, one pound...
There is no true picture of the religious attitude of soldiers to be gained from such representations-even conceding the truth of pictures and statistics. It is easy enough for soldiers to attend services when there is nothing else to do. I have seen them attend from sheer boredom...
...sheer curiosity I looks at th' small type on th' second page, an' y' know how bad th' printin' situation's got? Some damn fool put a 1943 dateline on th' paper. Dem's d' conditions dat prevail...
Hardy and Shaw. Like every publishing house, Macmillan made some crashing mistakes. Unlike most, it could afford them. One of its experts dismissed the writings of Henry James as "honest scribble work and no more." After characterizing the early works of William Butler Yeats as "sheer nonsense," Macmillan's really went overboard and insisted that his works had no more enduring value than "Maeterlinck's . . . Ibsen's . . . or Rossetti...
...looked like one American against the entire Luftwaffe. He was over us, across the formation and around it. For sheer determination and guts it was the greatest exhibition I have ever seen...