Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than Republicans, demanded that the electorate should vote yes-or-no on repealing the 18th Amendment. Republicans, more numerous, more noisy, succeeded in making it a question of retaining the law. Democrats complained that, since yes is more easy to say than no, the Dry side might win through sheer voter-thoughtlessness...
...least from a spectator's point of view, is that another game would most probably be a dull anti-climax to Wednesday's classic struggle. Hardly any game, no matter if it would break the tie--and there is no assurance that it would--could measure up for sheer excitement and good hockey to that 2 to 2 deadlock...
...view of the academic cloister and the hearth will be somewhat aghast at this new crusading function of the University. Crusading youth has generally been treated with a tempered skepticism by the older generation. The legendary children's crusade to rescue Jerusalem found a watery grave. Only in sheer revulsion can youth completely overstep the examples of those older and often self-styled the wiser. Protests from students against new educational experiments are received with as much indifference by educators as, according to the sighs of Dr. Meiklejohn, educators receive from students...
...counties of Hampshire and Hampden 39 years ago. In it lie bustly Springfield and somnolent Northampton, home of Citizen Calvin Coolidge.* This district has never sent a Democrat to the House. For 30 loyal years it blindly chose Frederick Huntington Gillett as its Representative until his sheer weight of service carried him to the Speakership, whence he went to the Senate. Last December its Congressman William Kirk Kaynor was killed in an airplane accident (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week it held a by-election to choose his successor. Candidates: Republican Frederick David Griggs; Democratic William Joseph Granfield...
...Racine (Wis.) County Courthouse. Said the jury of awards: ". . . They are evolving a treatment of the skyscraper that makes the most of the inherent structural necessities of the building. . . . They make the most of great simple masses, and avoid the finicky decoration that distracts from the beauty possibilities of sheer structural necessity." Art Critic Royal Cortissoz describes their work as "vertiginous verticality...