Word: sharpened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contest was scheduled by Coach Edo Marion in an effort to sharpen the varsity for this weekend's two-game road trip to Penn and Princeton...
...cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold in my two hot hands a large part of the striking power of the Navy. Others may pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...
...prevention week (when youngsters ride the fire wagon instead of learning to read), or that favorite excrescence on school programs (and budgets): driver training . . . We allow ourself one more question . . . If your school resembles a clambake or decathlon, if it seems more likely to bewilder and daze than to sharpen, furnish, and organize young minds, whose, ultimately, is the fault...
Favored to win most of the events except the backstroke, the Crimson will probably use the meet to sharpen up for the rest of the season...
Mimeographing lecture outlines would, of course, cost money, but it could improve the inefficient lecture system enough to make it justifiable. Theoretically, lectures are given not only to inform the student, but to help the professor sharpen his conceptions of his subject. At least in theory, he is offering his latest thoughts to a critical audience for the purpose of receiving constructive suggestions. Without the material aid of an outline, the professor's presentation cannot achieve maximum effectiveness, nor can the student exercise his critical capacity...