Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a theory behind this seeming nonchalance. Bolles believes that a crewman, if forced to row his heart out for months on end, will go stale both physically and psychologically. The task is not to build him up to superhuman proportions by sheer foot-pounds of energy expended, but to train him to peak efficiency at the exact time the race is scheduled...
...Jones is redheaded, Brooklyn-bred Hirsch Jacobs, 45, who has a talent for placing horses properly, i.e., in races they figure to win. Like Jones, Jacobs is an unusually keen observer, and he has a phenomenal memory, especially for the ailments of other men's horses. But for sheer training-horsemanship, wily Ben Jones (in partnership with able son Jimmy) has no real rival. He has come a long way from Parnell (pop. 490), with more than a few detours...
During the past three days this newspaper has published a series of reports on academic freedom. The reports are condensations from a mass of material--condensations necessitated by the sheer weight of information on the cases investigated. The cases do not run to pattern. Just what conclusions, if any, can be drawn from the cases as a group...
...Nettled by the ancient wheeze that plumbers always forget their tools, D. A. Bell, president of the Associated Plumbing Contractors of Colorado, snorted at a Denver convention of the group: "Sheer malarkey. No plumber can carry with him all the tools he needs. A minimum of 3,000 tools and repair parts are required...
...Sheer Ecstasy. In Hollywood, William C. Shaw Jr. explained to police who arrested him why he was wearing a nylon stocking over his face: "It makes me feel so good when I take...