Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best possible equipment helps pre serve that nest egg. The Cadet Corps's intense "school spirit" provides both winning inspiration and a constant brake against inflated egos. Keeping the team razor-sharp despite the heavy curricular chores is the nut that has to be cracked...
Last week Author Isherwood finished work for Warner Bros, on screen versions of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, and his good friend Somerset Maugham's Up at the Villa. Larry, youthful hero of Maugham's best-selling The Razor's Edge, is.said to be modeled on Isherwood. He is now at work on a novel about physically and spiritually "displaced persons...
...economic opposites of east and west. Already the pressure to reduce the U.S. occupation armies (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was seriously hampering General Eisenhower. Predicted Britain's Economist: "The Potsdam settlement will not last ten years, and when it breaks down there will be nothing but the razor-edge balance of international anarchy between civilization and the atomic bomb...
Died. John B. Thayer III, 50, Philadelphia socialite banker, survivor of the Titanic sinking (in which his father was lost); by his own hand (slashing his wrists and throat with a razor); in Philadelphia, after year-long grief over the death of one of his two sons in the Pacific...
...base-stealing pitcher-rich Senators, only a half-game back in second place, were set for a kill. Manager Ossie Bluege's razor-sharp club had won ten of its last thirteen games...