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Word: sharpe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chang Tso-lin is a great lord in the good old way. He favors swallows' nest soup, tugs delightedly at his large ears when pleased, has his own officers or their wives spitted on sharp stakes when displeased, and keeps a likely string of concubines. At Peking, Chang reaffirmed to correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CONQUEROR | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Freshmen who will represent Harvard against Yale tonight are C. N. Comstock. M. V. Anastos, and F. B. Thurber, with G. M. Parker as alternate. Those debating Princeton at Princeton, will be E. H. Hubbard, R. H. Sharp and P. D. Silverman, M. W. Mansur will act as alternate. These men left Cambridge yesterday for Princeton, where they will be entertained over the week-end by the Princeton Debating Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN DEBATERS FACE YALE, PRINCETON | 4/2/1927 | See Source »

...Freshmen debaters who will oppose Yale will be; C. N. Comstock, M. V. Anastos, and F. B. Thurber, with G. M. Parker as alternate. E. H. Hubbard. P. H. Sharp, and J. H. Silverman will argue against Princeton. M. W. Mansur will act as alternate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 DEBATERS REACH HEIGHT OF ACTIVITY | 4/1/1927 | See Source »

...shape of Italy is a conqueror's boot, and, just across the Adriatic from the "heel" lies, appropriately that sharp spur-wheel, Albania, with which II Duce prods the Balkans (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Scared | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Under a sharp, shrewd, cocky jaw, a lanky loon in a striped suit might have been bashing a smaller, silk-hatted maniac into cross-eyed insensibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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