Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baruch Plan sought a U.S. monopoly on the atom bomb. He displayed colossal but typical impudence when, as executor of one of the world's most brutal foreign policies, he charged certain circles in the West with using "extreme methods of pressure and violence." His speech was far sharper than Stalin's own brief answers. At week's end Molotov found it necessary to issue a remarkable statement to the Associated Press: "Your remark that 'there is no complete agreement' between the answers of the head of the Soviet Government, J. V. Stalin...
...York Times, were 15% under those of last year. Last May's stock prices were based on rosy hopes for big 1946 profits; last week's stock prices were based on the realization that many 1946 profits would be quite modest. The market drop was far sharper than after World War I (see chart] because the shock of disillusionment in the "postwar boom" was greater. Biggest shocker: the Pennsylvania Railroad would lose money this year for the first time in its loo-year history, unless it got a 25% freight increase (estimated loss: $14,616,000 after carryback...
French movies, like U.S. movies, have their own highly stylized view of life. But the French, with their sharper attention to the way human beings normally behave, often manage to make their film conventions look lifelike. The real pleasure in this picture comes from watching Actor Raimu's very human vacillation between shame and pride in his bastard grandson...
Congress' inclination was to let 'er go and wipe out almost all controls. The people had screamed when the House emasculated OPA; but House members went home for recess and did not change their minds. An even sharper bill, taking the lid off almost everything, passed the Senate last week by an overwhelming majority...
...liberal Christian churches have silently come round to the Unitarian view of Servetus on the oneness of God, and thus it has ceased to be a live issue. Meanwhile, during the period in which orthodoxy was catching up with liberal thought, the liberals were advancing onward to new and sharper issues, and today the crucial issue about which they speak and think is that of supernaturalism v. naturalism, the issue of two worlds v. one, and, as you would expect, the Unitarian stress is again on the scientific outlook...