Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...break between the continuous violent exercise of organized undergraduate athletics and the spasmodic exertions of business and professional life is sharp enough to lead to terrifying theories of "athletic hearts". And although that malady has been proved non-existent there is still abundant evidence of the disagreeable results of this abrupt change...
...arara, a flat flounder-like fish of northern Brazil, has its tail equipped with a sharp spike containing a kind of poison. When the fish senses danger it raises the spike perpendicularly. Natives walking in the shallow waters of the region have been pierced, poisoned to death by the weapon...
...till the substance disintegrated, had the laboratory not been destroyed by lightning. Suit was brought against him in the New York State Supreme Court. Many of his statements were proved false or were at variance with known scientific laws. Two disinterested illuminating engineers, Cyprian O. Maillaux and Clayton H. Sharp, after investigating the plant at Harrison, N. J., reported: "Nothing was shown which would convince us that the apparatus has any practical application, or that it has any industrial or commercial value...
Otto H. Kahn: "It was reported that I had engaged Miss Muriel Sharp to take the place of Lady Diana Manners, who is to retire from The Miracle. Miss Sharp is the young lady who, in April, 1923, created a sensation by suing Clendennin J. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, for $500 room rent...
...sharp cross-section of the Carolina Mountains trying to digest the late...