Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they behaved in some ways like radium, soon after to be discovered by the Curies. They made the vacuum tube glow with-brilliant fluorescence. If a piece of metal were sealed in the tube, in the path of the rays, the metal became very hot. It also cast a sharp shadow on the wall of the tube. The Crookes tube, refined in mechanism, is the common x-ray tube of today, useful to physicists, metallurgists, biologists, doctors, dentists. (In 1895 the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen discovered the penetrating powers of the rays...
...have dealt with Miss Mullen will ever forget her--her wavy gray hair, her keen eyes, her sharp outspokenness, her unconcealed contempt of all that is slovenly and inaccurate, her passion for work perfectly done, her boundless delight in flowers, her merciless insight, her royally generous and merciful heart...
...sharp perception of Headmaster Stearns pointed a moral when he said that the Modern Schoolboy is "possibly a bit lacking in some of the more rugged qualities" due to "the fault of the modern social conditions in which he finds himself living." And Headmaster Perry seemed to sense a lack of mental ruggedness. "They have far more information but possibly less intellectual curiosity...
...death house last week for a new trial. They took him to a jail wherein one of his enemies, William Reid, had been locked up for a minor offense. Hearing that "Red" Moran was coming, William Reid quietly took a spoon and ground its handle until it was as sharp and keen as a knife...
Late in the afternoon the two prisoners met in a corridor. It was the exercise period. The guards were a few steps away. The other prisoners stood in a huddled circle. William Reid moved suddenly. "Red" Moran felt a sharp jagged blade tearing through clothes, tearing through his flesh...