Word: sharpening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Currently in the depths of a three game losing streak, the varsity would like nothing better than to sharpen up for this weekend's important contests with Princeton and Penn by winning...
When a San Diego physician asked a technician at General Dynamics' Convair Division to sharpen a big and costly type of hypodermic needle, he had no idea that the trail would lead into the human heart. But more Convair design specialists and engineers got interested in medical gadgeteering; *last week a notable result was announced. They had developed a new and sophisticated heart-lung machine...
...Henry James. Realist though Homer is. says Gardner, he probably got his great inspiration from the same source that sparked the School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same. Gardner believes, but like a Yankee, "he chose to keep his mouth shut...
...smart move designed to get the lead in what was to be a low-scoring contest), and of a thrust to the three early in the second period, which came to nothing after a couple of repulsed line bucks and two overthrown passes. The Crimson will have to sharpen its passing attack and improve its drive in front of the goal line in order to cast much weight in the Ivy League this year.Mud and tacklers are this runner's problems as he sweeps around Buffalo's left end in one of Saturday's unsuccessful drives for a touchdown...
Chayefsky is of course the prime mover in the whole work. His satire is sometimes crude, but it has bigness and generous anger, and his too physical sense of reality is a limitation that helps to concentrate his force and sharpen his impact. At his best he has an earthy weight and vigor that suggest a more amenable Von Stroheim, a pocket Zola...