Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit, a somewhat sharper and slimmer (down to 210 Ibs.) Joe Louis over slow-footed Freddie Beshore, by a technical knockout in the fourth...
...means the number of sick, mortality the number of dead. For years doctors in the U.S. and Britain have been puzzling over a paradox in the morbidity and mortality rates of tuberculosis: while TB mortality has declined fairly steadily, morbidity has been rising. One possible explanation: doctors have become sharper-eyed in detecting new cases...
...shot. Half a minute later, Co-Captain Ed Cahoon tipped the puck in to climax a ganging attack. The Crimson was one man short during both of these scores, and the defense didn't seem to be able to handle B.U.'s extra-manplays. The Terriers, clearly faster and sharper-passing, set up and took any shots they wanted...
...alumnus with a blemished war record (while a pilot in England he took time off between bombing runs to murder his wife's lover). This tragedy has somehow reduced him to running a Chicago handbook that is always being raided by the police. In desperation, Heston turns card sharper and, with two cronies, fleeces a sucker of $5,000. The sucker commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and child as well as a maniacal brother who sets out to eliminate the gamblers. He throttles two of them and has a lethal half nelson on Heston before the police intervene...
After she went to her berth, "I sat drinking my milk and thinking about tier," writes Author Farrell. Readers will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight...