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Word: sharpe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon yesterday at the Union attended by over 100 members of the University, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the Presidency bitterly attacked the Republican and Democratic parties as "the double-headed party of big business". With sharp sarcasm, keen wit, and scathing mockery he discussed the campaign, the issues at stake, and the candidates, from Republican to Liberal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORMAN THOMAS FLAYS PARTIES | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

...Nominee went to Elizabethton largely under the auspices of onetime (1921-23) Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claudius Hart Huston and U. S. Representative Brazilla Carroll Reece. The leader of a neighboring and equally Republican district in Tennessee is Representative J. Will Taylor. The Messrs. Huston and Reece have sharp intraparty differences with Mr. Taylor. But it was planned, for harmony's sake, to let Mr. Taylor be as big a lion as anyone in receiving Nominee Hoover. It was planned that, at the luncheon of the day, Mr. Reece should rise to welcome the Nominee, and that Mr. Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taylor Incident | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...year, 117, was reached on Jan. 19. By Feb. 8, it had hit 149¼. Responding to the two brief periods of market weakness, it lost 20 points in the last week of February, won them back, then lost 10 points in the week ending June 16. Sharp and spectacular was its recovery. It soared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bulls' Pride | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...summary follows: goals, Harvard, Gerry 9, Iseliu 1. Jenkins 2, Clark 3, Nicholas 1: Danvers, Millican 2, A. Mason 2, a. Mason Jr. 3, Hopkins 3, Time, six six-minute periods, Referee. Capt. F. D. Sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RIDERS DOWN DANVERS CLUB 16 TO 10 | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

Cartoons usually go to the other extreme. Their use is chiefly destructive, to ridicule and depreciate the other side's men and issues. The national campaign of 1928 has been notably a campaign of cartoons for two reasons: The issues are sharp and bitter; and both sides have ruled out what Nominee Smith called "baloney" pictures ?posed photographs of the Nominees digging on farms, milking cows, kissing babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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