Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...version was sharper: "to create facts, to confront the world with these facts, and to build on their foundation...
That made 178-lb. Ezzard Charles, by default, the most probable candidate to fight Joe Louis. But after the fight, Ezz seemed hone too eager to claim his newly won privilege. "My goodness, not yet," he said. "I'd have to be a lot sharper if I fought the champ." Besides, who was he to give his hero the last shove? "He's still the greatest," said Ezz. "I want him to retire undefeated...
...said that if anyone wanted to know what his program would be, they should reread his September 1945 message to Congress. And he expected to carry out the Democratic platform, including its planks on civil rights-a challenge which was made sharper by Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who, speaking for himself, said that there would be no compromise with the South...
Sharp Again. When the ball-point-pen boom collapsed, Eversharp, Inc. went into the red (TIME, May 24) and its stock dropped from 58¼ to a low of 7¾. Last week Eversharp was looking sharper. Chairman Martin L. Straus II reported a six-months net of $598,688, after taxes, v. $139,925 in the first half...
Last year Drs. De Robertis & Schmidt turned their electron microscope, which is far sharper-sighted than the ordinary "light microscope," on nerve fibers, the delicate tendrils sent out by nerve cells. They found that the fibers were cables made up of many hollow tubes about one-millionth of an inch in diameter. The discovery gave them an idea. The "neuro-tubules" seemed ideally adapted for conducting submicroscopic objects around the body. Perhaps, thought the doctors, they conducted the polio virus on its missions of paralysis and death...