Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears that these inferior linemen are giving the coaches a good deal of worry. No one packs the punch of a Peabody or a Pflstor, and the sheer power of a Miller or a Gardiner is sadly missing. Jack Fisher, the Freshman captain of a year ago, has the inside track on the conter fight, but hero again a wide-open battle royal should develop in September...
...Rogue's Gallery, the funniest story, tells of Miss Sargent's experiences as assistant to a Mr. Sheer, a borrowed-shoestring art dealer...
According to the ancients, art had two functions: to instruct and to give pleasure. Much of today's art is instructive: it selects details of the actual world and invites contemplation of them. Another kind of modern art gives pleasure by the sheer wit, fantasy and exuberance of its forms. Darrel Austin's paintings are of this sort, and the infectious charm of his queer, metallic-sheened amphibian fairyland has recently made him one of the most popular of contemporary U.S. artists...
...origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats, bright with paint, nose over...
Kirkland rose from the depths of the League cellar to give a superior Eliot squad a battle before sheer power forced the Deacons to give way. Stevens tallied twice and Pope added one marker to edge determined but outclassed Kirkland aggregation...