Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp observation of such behavior, Dr. Goldstein not only learns how the human brain works, but is able to recognize many symptoms which might otherwise be easily overlooked...
Right Somersault. Few French Cabinets have survived such troublous periods as the last 14 months. Daladier's Cabinet survived by a steady process of swinging Right-a right swing so sharp that he virtually performed a political cartwheel. In general, the French Right favored appeasement. The British Cabinet, bent on handouts for the dictators, pressed Leftist Daladier to give way. He sealed tight the Spanish border, an action which also sealed the fate of the Spanish Loyalists. French finances groaned, the franc wavered, the country rapidly lost its gold. At Munich he gave way completely and brought France...
...unfortunate that many Cambridge citizens with have to form their opinions from the Boston Herald's colorful front-page "editorial" on the subject. They may come off with an impression of Harvard sharp-shooters picking off soldiers who stood at attention in honor of the dead. They may have a picture of unruly mobs of students jeering the services, insulting their country, desecrating the shrines of memory. Certainly they will not realize that any actual rioting was completely divorced from the ceremonies, that it was provoked just as much by the Kerry Corner Kids as by the students...
From his busy little office in Boston, salty old Porter Sargent, whose sharp eyes and ears miss very little that is written or said about U. S. education, last week issued his annual report on the state of the nation's biggest business.* Mr. Sargent, prefacing the 23rd edition of his famed handbook of private schools with a 160-page sound-off,† found the state of education more than normally alarming. During the year private schools, for example, were sharply criticized-luxurious Lawrenceville's Headmaster Allan V. Heely went so far as to call them an expensive...
...years he has lived in a big, grey, barnlike house, once a boys' school, on a Connecticut hilltop overlooking the Housatonic River. Part of each winter he usually spends in Washington, D. C., where he visits his good friends, Senator George Norris and Secretary Wallace, keeps a sharp eye on the latest fast moves of legislators. In summer he manages his two dairy farms, calls them "a sheet anchor against inflation...