Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flyers of Group Twelve, now to be dispersed to spread their lore among new airmen, carried away many another memory last week as they said goodbye and went to their new stations. But none was sharper than the great carrier strike on Rabaul...
...Devers swept through each other's former command. In North Africa General Devers, fresh from England, bore down on "reports," especially "lazy reports," demanded action in the flesh rather than on paper. In Britain General Ike, fresh from Africa, ordered the well-pressed Military Police into still sharper uniforms...
...Sharper Brains. The Army was interested but unconvinced by Miller's informal and solitary experiment. He turned to tired, tense businessmen to prove that a loose, energy-conserving body means a keener mind in the clutches. Miller proved a crack salesman. Fat fees flowed in from Tulsa and Kansas City oiligarchs...
...things as: spectacle lenses that will cut out bright-light reflections for their wearer and be almost invisible to others; glareless car windshields; more visible dashboards and instrument panels; store windows, showcases, picture frames, watch crystals and clockfaces so clear that the glass is invisible;-faster camera lenses, producing sharper pictures; clearer movies and television...
...hardly likely that bombardment alone could shake the Japs loose from Kiska. Like moles, they would have to be ferreted out with sharper weapons...