Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-team shoot Sunday the skeet team complied 446 points out of a possible 500 to take second point behind West Point...
...winning Cadets made 461 birds and led Harvard; Babson, which scored 423 points; and West Point and Crimson second teams which also competed. The Yale team, also scheduled to compete, was disqualified because only three men out of the five-man team showed up at Lordship, Connecticut, where the meet was held...
...submarine, now able to stay submerged for long periods "with only a small end of a pipe [the schnorkel] sticking out like a swimmer breathing through a straw," able to outrun pursuers and overtake fast convoys, and carrying long-range homing torpedoes which could be fired from a point beyond the earshot of sonar. The Nazis had been a few months too late with their undersea engine of destruction. But there it is now, says Bush, a heritage of German ingenuity: "one of our greatest potential enemies...
Faulkner's detective-hero, Gavin Stevens, is a small-town Mississippi lawyer with gritty common sense and a shrewd insight into poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes-but Faulkner runs him to the ground by overloading him with unnecessary and undemonstrated learning ("a Harvard graduate . . . who could discuss Einstein with college professors") and with too much folksy moralizing...
...indicated above, I can find no fault with the acting of Mr. Fletcher and Miss Farrand--except to stupidly point out that they are not the Lunts, a sad shortcoming they must share with all other actors. Of the two I would say that Mr. Fletcher gives the better show, and that his guardsman is preferable to his husband...