Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After running on the two-mile relay team this winter, another attack of sickness discouraged him so that he seriously considered quitting track. By the Dartmouth meet, however, he had so improved through sheer training, that his teammates voted him the Sav Cartoon for the most improved member...
Sirs: . . . F.D.R. ran on a help-Britain, antiwar platform. Since the election he has pushed the help-Britain part of the program to the limit. One more step and we will tumble by sheer weight of gravity into the war. But if we don't take that step-convoying-the war is certain to be lost...
...vessels had tightened to a line of battle. At 10:20 a number of darkened ships loomed up on their starboard bow. Simultaneously they were challenged by an enemy vessel on the port beam. Admiral Cunningham decided to sheer away from the lone vessel and engage the others. He ordered all ships 90° to starboard...
Europe, he says, has always been distinguished by its "diversity in homogeneity." "It is sheer madness to stake all Europe on one card, on a single type of man, on one identical 'situation.' Europe's secret talent up to the present day has been to avoid this, and it is the consciousness of this secret that has shaped the speech ... of the perpetual liberalism of Europe." In passing, Ortega y Gasset contributes to a minor but diverting branch of literature-anecdotes about inspired, rhetorical, self-important Novelist Victor Hugo. At his jubilee, Hugo was receiving the foreign...
Last week Swedish Novelist Vilhelm Moberg published a novel that was written with great earnestness, a restrained love of the Swedish countryside, an earthy knowledge of peasant types. In sheer acreage (687 pages) The Earth Is Ours outbulked Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil (406 pages). But Growth of the Soil told an ageless legend of a land-loving peasant's conquest of and by the soil. The Earth Is Ours tells the story of a book-loving peasant's efforts to reshape his native countryside along the lines of the more abundant life...