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Word: sharp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once had given Harry Truman more money than he had asked. Inside the $15.5 billion defense bill which he signed last week was an extra item of $615 million to be spent in starting to build a 58-group Air Force. On this subject Harry Truman had been sharp and clear: he wanted the Air Force held to 48 groups. So with a brisk bit of juggling, he took what he wanted of the bill and left the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It Cuts Three Ways | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Russian counterproposal also calls for international control and inspection, but it contains a number of sharp little gimmicks: 1) atomic energy research and production facilities for "peaceful purposes" would be owned by individual nations; 2) inspection would be only "periodic," confined to plants, mines, etc. that have been declared officially by the government which controls them; 3) the international body would merely make recommendations to the Security Council on how to deal with offenders, thus subjecting enforcement to the veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: No-Progress Report | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard center forward position, Coach Bruce Munro tired a new plan, alternating Jim Bell and Drehmel. The project met with some degree of success, for Drehmel's feeding style was a sharp--and confusing--contract to Bell's crashing, pounding style...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouguet, | Title: Booters Upset Princeton, Win, 1-0, in Overtime | 11/6/1949 | See Source »

Today the varsity, running 4.2 miles, will include: Dave Gregory, Joe Leeming, John Pankey, Hank Everett, Dick White, Al Master, Dave Cairns, Thayer Scudder, Clarke Coggeshall, Ron Berman, and Steve Sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jaakko Faces Princeton, Eli Teams Today | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

Susan Steiner '50 and Wilma Levitt '50 bought theirs from a sharp dealer who doubles as a tobacconist. Miss Levitt thereafter disposed of three dozen among her friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pipe This --- Gals Junk Coffin Nails . . . | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

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