Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's indoor polo activities were launched at the Commonwealth Armory yesterday afternoon when the University squad galloped through its initial winter workout under the guidance of Captain F. D. Sharp, Crimson polo coach...
Having lost both F. A. Clark '29, and G. O. Clark '31 of last year's championship team, Coach Sharp has a great deal to do to round his team into shape. However, Captain E. T. Gerry II '31, the only Crimson man with a handicap rating, H. I. Nicholas Jr. '31, and E. K. Jenkins '31 return to form a nucleus for the squad. Crispin Cooke '32, W. F. Luton '32, A. L. Castle '32, P. S. Owen '32, G. R. Holden '31, R. K. Leonard '31, and N. W. Kimball '31 complete the squad that turned out yesterday...
...Obeying sharp military orders, a score of the raiders ranged through the corridors of the big building. Soon five other rope-bound, writhing watchmen?the whole force on duty at the Depot?were jammed into the brig with the gate guard. To them came muffled clanks and booms from above. The commanding Naval officer on duty, yanked from his bed, remembered that in the big safe on the top floor was $84,500 pay for the 300 Depot employes. For five hours robbers held the Navy's great supply base out of U. S. control...
...surprise at the sight of a trim new regiment marching briskly and in close order out of the hard-harried Republican redoubts. From the sidelines few were the faces recognized in this detachment of fresh troops as it deployed and in one bold stroke captured the tariff battlefield under sharp Democratic fire...
...each wagon sat the finalists in the U. S. cornhusking championship, all of them famous huskers, winners of sectional tournaments. They were young fellows in old work-clothes. Each husker had one bare hand and one hand in a glove equipped with a little steel hook or a sharp steel peg. They lined up facing the corn with their wagons and waited for the cannon-shot that would start them working...