Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stories of this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway station...
Because of the freshness of the season, a slight dearth of material, and the absence of Captain E. T. Gerry '31, Coach Sharp picked W. F. Luton '32 to play No. 1, N. W. Kimball '32 at No. 2, and H. I. Nicholas Jr. '31 as back, although the game was scheduled for the Harvard seconds...
When Speaker Longworth resumed his chair, there was no roll call on H. J. Res. 133, only a rising vote. With his gavel handle the Speaker went through the motions of counting while a sharp-eyed clerk took the actual tally, whispered the result up to him for announcements: 282 to 17. Tax reduction had been approved by the House four days after its introduction-a new record...
Originally this game was scheduled for the Seconds, but because of the dearth of material and the brevity of the season Coach Sharp has put in these men to play...
This is the second year that Captain Sharp has coached the University Polo team. Last year Harvard won all the games in both the Boston League and in her other indoor games, which led up to the Intercollegiate Championship in Indoor Polo and to the finals of the Class A tournament. This year, however, prospects are not very bright, as several men are in college are ineligible at present...