Word: sharpe
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...