Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government payroll, which has grown at the rate of 1,448 civilians a day since the start of the Korean war. Ferguson offered an amendment cutting FSA-Labor payrolls a flat 10%, warned that he would try to make the same cut in all Government departments. The debate became sharper. New York's Herbert Lehman, a man who is always pleading to save something, pleaded to spare the payrolls of such public health activities as heart disease and cancer research. West Virginia's Matthew Neely gibed that Douglas was "not only a great debater but, on Mondays, Wednesdays...
Playwrights Bevan & Trzcinski, who met during their years in a German prison camp, provide a few glimpses of Nazi brutality. But in general they display sharper memories for what goes over on the stage than what went on in their stalag. Producer Ferrer, in his boisterous staging, equally neglects mind and heart for spine and funnybone...
...most-valuable-player award, Brigham Young Coach Stan Watts began to think about the N.C.A.A. tournament, in which his team is also entered. Said Watts with professional pessimism: "The boys looked kind of ragged to me." Minson & Co., he thought, would have to be a lot sharper to win the N.C.A.A. title. Naturally, they will be praying that they do their best...
Both Dean Bender and Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 expressed mild surprise that the fluctuation was so slight. Bender said yesterday that he had expected the figures would show a sharper decline in marks than proved to be the case...
Clarinetist Prince Robinson ("Say he's from New Orleans," says Max. "That's a good place to be from.") is an Armstrong alumnus from way back, and does indeed play in the very ancient Crescent City tradition. Kaminsky blows his horn with a sharper, thinner tone and with less imagination than in past days; it comes out a New York or modern-Chicago style. And trombonist Munn Ware alternates strangely between a "suffering" blues tone and the most modern, polished sound of the three...