Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experienced power politician, as well as a high-minded political philosopher, Pandit Nehru probably realized that Britain might promise almost anything if the Axis came just a little nearer India's riches. Said he: "I am not prepared perpetually to remain under British subjection out of sheer fear of Japanese or German aggression...
...gentlemen have demanded that I explain to you the meaning of the blue ensemble and red necktie. Well, perhaps that might be taken as reflecting a view as to the relative importance of networks, or it might simply be out of sheer loyalty and affection for the Navy and for Harvard...
...third important bogey is partly dispelled by the pamphlet described above; it is the desperate error of treading on clouds; of planning with a dreamer's misty brain for the sheer delight of planning. In peeling off the layers of what-has-been-done-before they must not forget that history is the best teacher; they must go deep into basic reasons for failure of world organization and economic systems; they must examine the generalized Eight Points and such detailed plans as are put forward in high places; they must examine such statements, too, as the one thrown...
...Competition plays a tremendously important part in evolution but the survival of the fittest does not always mean the survival of the strong, the predators, the parasites or even the adequately defended organisms." Sheer struggle tends to be supplanted by cooperation, Emerson observed, in each evolutionary step upward from the single cell to the many-celled organism to the family to societies...
...years when they will meet Tufts on the same night as the Varsity does. The Crimson box score is as follows: gls fls pts DeLeo, l.g. 0 1 1 Smart, l.g. 0 0 0 Rudman, l.g. 0 0 0 Richards, r.g. 2 1 5 Stamphl, r.g. 0 0 0 Sheer, r.g. 0 0 0 Keene, e. 7 2 16 Noyes, e. 0 0 0 Bixler, l.f. 11 0 22 Bergobbi, l.f. 0 0 0 Hennessey, r.f. 1 4 6 Totals...