Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should we not do likewise with presidents of the U. S., instead of sending them home to twiddle their thumbs, perhaps die of sheer ennui, or, even worse, to hatch up unsuccessful but embarrassing schemes to stage a comeback-as did Theodore Roosevelt and others? Grant, after two terms (1869-1877), retired, then made a strong bid for the Republican nomination in 1880. Van Buren, defeated for re-election under the Democratic standard in 1840, led the new Free-soil party in 1848. Fillmore, rejected by his dissolving Whig party, became the Know-Nothing candidate...
Denver's Ionic-columned post office was pictured on the first floor; the Denver Children's Hospital, all function and windows, on the second. Manhattan's cavernous Pennsylvania Station, based on the Baths of Caracalla, was a contrast to the sheer, severe, glass-&-marble front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...past few years?--Shaw used to work of him, and it would seem to me that the boss man is still topside when it comes to color effects. Very few bands has surpassed the sort of thing Kostclanetz does on discs like "Swamp Fire," when it comes to sheer color effect. Shaw belongs in the publicity game, not music...
...Cling to the Christian ideal . . . it is only by force on the battle ground that evil can be resisted." The group of undergraduates thus addressed did not respond; it persisted in motionless silence. "The racial doctrine as interpreted in the Nazi creed is sheer, primitive nonsense . . . be proud of the race to which you belong"--Still no hurrah shouts from the audience. The catch-words of 1914 do not catch any more; their halo has faded out in the grisly twilight of reality. British youth knows that war is a messy business; and it refuses to believe the old-school...
Freshman officers can be influential in shaping the policy of a university. Their criticism and suggestions receive the administration's careful attention. But when unqualified men are elected to positions of responsibility and often kept there for four years through sheer inertia, this potential influence is being wasted...