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Word: sharp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Before the arrival of the undergraduates, teams A and B were sent through a short, sharp scrimmage, lasting only a Few minutes. Neither side scored but the showing of both teams was good. This scrimmage was followed by a long signal drill and kicking practice which terminated on the arrival of the parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE TEAMS ON FIELD | 11/10/1916 | See Source »

...shimmering white in the east. Under me on the left the Vosges, like rounded sand dunes cushioned up with velvety light and dark mosses (really forests). But to the south, standing firmly above the purple cloth like icebergs shone the Alps. My! they looked steep and jagged. The sharp blue shadows on their western slopes emphasized the effect. One mighty group standing aloof to the West--Mont Blanc, perhaps. Ah, there are quantities of worm-eaten fields--my friends, the trenches,--and that town with the canal going through it must be M--. Right beside the capote of my engine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/10/1916 | See Source »

...clash and reconciliation of his Muse and his Love, though smooth enough, is cloyed with pale pink, saccharine sentiment. Mr. Nelson's "Early Frost" is skillful work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something because he cannot hold it back--because he has something to say. And at the end of his bold plea for individuality...

Author: By Kenneth PAYSON Kempton ., | Title: Monthly Lacks "Hot Tar" | 11/1/1916 | See Source »

...companies of the Harvard Battalion will assemble on the roadway east of James Smith Hall today at 1.30 P.M. sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battalion Orders | 10/31/1916 | See Source »

...companies of the Harvard Battalion will assemble on the roadway east of James Smith Hall today at 1.50 o'clock sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battalion Orders | 10/26/1916 | See Source »

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