Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baiting a la Dies," claimed proprietors of the Holyoke Bookshop in a sharp denial of charges made yesterday by City Councilor Mickey (The Dude) Sullivan to the effect that the 19 Dunster Street establishment is a red nest" and merely a "sham" through which Communist propaganda is being distributed to "unsuspecting students...
...nomenclature of World War II, few names are more widely known now than Messerschmitt. It stands for lethal speed in the air by Nazi pursuit ships. Willy Messerschmitt,* 41, is a sharp-nosed, sandy-haired citizen of the placid, medieval town of Augsburg, Germany. He started flying when he was 15, designed his first plane in 1916, became chief engineer of Bayerische Flugzengwerke at Augsburg in 1927, specializing in speed. On April 26 this year, one of his ships with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly...
Pravda's masters of invective foamed at the mouth. In an editorial labeled "Buffoon in the Post of Premier," Premier Cajander, head of the Government of a "friendly" State, became a "clown, crowing rooster, squirming grass-snake, marionette; small beast of prey without sharp teeth and strength but having a cunning lust." The 60-year-old Premier, a schoolteacher's son, a forestry expert and middle-of-the-road Progressive in politics, was accused of "standing on his head, talking upside down, smearing crocodile tears over his dirty face." If Premier Cajander did not watch out, Pravda hinted...
Between classes, Miss Campbells pupils kept fairly busy reading, writing or drawing, occasionally got up to go outdoors to the privy. Miss Campbell kept a sharp eye open, once remarked: "I see so many drone bees instead of busy bees...
...this time Curtis preferred stockholders had a thumping $12,339,273 coming to them in preferred dividends, and not even the sharp eyes of President Walter Deane Fuller could see the money in sight. Meanwhile the holders of the common, headed by the Bok family, descendants of the late great Curtis Founder Cyrus Herman Kotz-schmar Curtis (who own 836,626 shares), were becoming impatient...