Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...space and come eternally to rest in Abraham's bosom. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then a sharper twist of phrase suggests the weeping and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes of the historical Jeremiah, but for the most part the rhapsodic wildness of the prophet does not break through the fabric of ritualistic lament. Emotion breaks through more strongly in a far more conventional piece, however...
...home, observers noted a trend in Captain Patterson toward quasi-respectability. Said he: "The Daily News was built on legs, but when we got enough circulation we draped them." Momentarily his contrast with Colonel McCormick was modulated. But two years later, with the Roosevelt election, the contrast flared sharper than ever: the News boomed Roosevelt and the New Deal; the Tribune screamed at both. They agreed on one thing: the need for a Big Navy. Last year Cousins Joe and Bertie found another bond: they agreed on appeasing Japan and urged Britain to settle with Germany on the "best terms...
...fewer number of rent levils will make the allotting of rooms each spring considerably simpler, the masters hope. They also believe that with the rates increasing in sharper steps students will be more likely to mark down on their applications the amount that they can afford to pay and will not attempt to buy their way into Houses by going beyond their means...
This novel's first sentence is: "I was unusually drunk the night my father died." The speaker is Marcus Hendrycks, a 21-year-old Cambridge undergraduate, reeking rich. He proceeds to paint a sharper-than-average picture of gambling, snobbery and alcoholism among the more gilded British collegians. At the end of his wild night he finds that his father is not only dead but bankrupt and that his real life has begun. On thin savings he subsists for a while in a shabby-genteel London boardinghouse, at length moves on to the full depth of the slums...
...Department chairman expects an even sharper decline in the amount of written work. To correct papers intelligently, and to give undergraduates valuable advice about their preparation, a rare brand of assistant is required. With departmental budgets declining and the College saddled with straight-jacket tenure rules, many would-be teachers probably will not stay here long enough to become expert and experienced instructors...