Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describing a hypothetical transfer of American bombers to great Britain, "The President is all for the plan, but only if public opinion gets behind it. That's where the William Allen white committee swings into action, and pretty soon, Bang! and the deal is done." This was not sheer boasting, for the White Committee is probably the most powerful propaganda agency America has ever seen...
...clouds like the Milky Way. If in each of these, on the average, there is one star with planets, that makes several hundred million planets. Many of these must be too hot or cold, too big or little, or lack suitable atmospheres and moisture. But on some, by the sheer law of averages, the conditions should be favorable for life. Astronomer Jones believes that where the conditions are favorable, life will arise. He believes that life is widely but thinly spread through the universe...
...inhospitable Gaspé on his left, an invader would have the rugged Laurentians on his right, could not hope to get a foothold until he had taken Quebec. In the river his ships would be targets for defending bombers and artillery. The shores of the lower St. Lawrence are sheer and bold, could be held thinly by determined, well-armed men. At Quebec is the beginning of the lowland country which widens out into the fertile Richelieu Valley and south toward Lake Champlain. Farther upstrean lies Montreal, Canada's metropolis and No. i seaport. To launch a land thrust...
Died. Sir Raymond Unwin, 76, famed British town planner; after a two-month illness; in Lyme, Conn. Advocating "satellite" towns to relieve metropolitan congestion. Planner Unwin dubbed skyscrapers "sheer madness...
...sheer fierceness and talent this latest novel by Robert Neumann (Mammon, The Queen's Doctor, Zaharoff) has few competitors in recent fiction. Like Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Richard Wright's Native Son, it was written with passion called forth by human wrong. But in Neumann's case that wrong is more complex, less local, more profound: it is the story of the Jews of Europe, of whom Vienna-born Neumann is one. By the Waters of Babylon is perhaps his masterpiece, perhaps theirs...