Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representative Mary Newman of Cambridge, chairman of the commission's sub-committee on education, said "It's absolutely untrue. We have no intention of calling on Judge Wyzanski. The idea is sheer nonsense...
...also the year of 3-D, Cinema-Scope, Cinerama, big screen, stereophonic sound and other technical tricks designed to make Marilyn Monroe look 64 feet long (couchant) and intended to lure back, by sheer gigantism, the public that had been lost to 17-inch TV screens. This too was sometimes called progress...
...inches of Widener catalogue cards, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, is a man who feels that he has arrived. This bracing assurance leads him to describe his past in terms of a pleasant uphill stroll, while leading him at present to be a booming, aggressive lecturer who, "in sheer despair," cordons off a special section of the room for the late-comers to his nine o'clock Fogg lectures...
...moved across in seven plays. Culver smashed through the line three times, Clasby hit Lewis with a short pass, and then Lewis took the ball from Clasby, cut through the short side, knocked down one defender, outran two others, and carried one over with him after 22 yards of sheer determination. A holding penalty set the Crimson back to the 17, from where Ross just missed the point...
...sheer tradition and Yale's determination to avenge the startling 3 to 2 upset which foiled their quest for a perfect record last year promise to make today's meeting exciting fare for the anticipated gathering of 800 fans at Walter Camp Field...