Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could anyone explain the wave of fanaticism. Since going juramentado has lost some of its religious significance and is now sometimes sheer homicidal mania, it could have been just the excitement of the Moro harvest festivals. Or the out breaks might reflect Moro resentment against conscription or against the despised, diminutive, Christian Filipinos' (with whom the Moros have fought for centuries) settling and trying to govern in Moro territory...
...only university in America that does not possess today a modern theatre or theatre-auditorium. Be that as it may, it is most discouraging to act to blocks of empty seats, and yet the Club has courageously continued to stage plays from the pockets of its members through sheer love of the theatre. It cannot long survive, however, without more student support. W. B. Van Leannp...
...maids read, bridled, sent a committee to Warden Laura Woolsey Lord Scales demanding an immediate apology. The faculty suspended the Tatler and its editors wrote the maids a penitent letter. "We hope that [the maids] will accept our apologies and that they will be lenient with a sheer creation, unfortunate and ill-advised." Appeased, the maids resumed their mopping...
...Land Is Bright (by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; produced by Max Gordon) is a show about the forces that helped send the world to hell, but to most people it will give merely an evening of sheer escape. It can't avoid becoming a movie, but it might have been a play. It is the story of a ruthless robber baron who amassed $200,000,000 in the '90s, and of his corrupt, irresponsible descendants-flinthearts and playboys, women prowling Europe for titles, girls scouring Manhattan for thrills. It might have lacerated the flesh...
...four lighter crews will probably not do as well through sheer lack of weight, but anything can and has happened in a crew race, and they will undoubtedly give their larger opponents a run for their money...