Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disastrous scene: the great, gloomy canyon, the dashing crowds and distraught faces. That lithograph is now in the Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints for the sheer joy of it in a highly emotional style, blandly ignoring the arrows of sophisticates who find his art old-fashioned and crude...
...gadgets may get a real test this summer. Meteorologist Miller notes that hurricanes have occurred during May only nine times since 1887, and each of those years had an unusually large number of storms. It may be sheer coincidence, or it could be because hurricane conditions become favorable sooner and last longer. If true, the 1959 season may be a lively one. Tropical storm No. 1, Arlene, roared in over Louisiana...
...Blackboard. Most 128 companies stress their academic bent. Their competitive advantage is sheer brainpower-a blackboard, chalk and talent snatched from all across the U.S. They attract many corporation scientists who want to do advance research at local universities-and then they jealously guard these recruits. Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna." At the same time, Route 128 companies draw as part-time consultants the fulltime professors and graduate students who want to put their ideas into action in industry (and to reap its rewards...
...heavy exposure of Deep South Depravity to which readers and playgoers were already being subjected." The fallacy in this statement is that, while depravity can at least cause a warm tingling sensation up and down your groin, the only emotion induced by prolonged exposure to innocuousness is sheer boredom...
...remarkable man than your June 15 article indicates. Many years ago he tried to save a woman from walking into a turning propeller, suffered serious head injuries himself. It's still difficult for him to write, he talks hesitantly, yet has been gradually overcoming these handicaps out of sheer will power and determination...