Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tuned for its first concert from an oboe-sounded A set at 847 vibrations a second, two vibrations above the century-old tuning fork of George Handel. Then at the Congress of Vienna, military bands discovered that by raising the pitch of their instruments they could ring out sharper fortissimi during the day and crisper waltzes at night. By 1846 the London Philharmonic was trilling Bach fugues after tuning to an oboe A of 905 vibrations. In 19th-Century U.S., where overheated concert halls dried out the instruments, the pitch rose also...
Inevitably, as the trading in rye got hotter & sharper, some traders got hurt. One of those hurt the most (he lost over $800,000) was Vienna-born Bernhard Rosee (pronounced Roo-say), a cosmopolitan gentleman who has traded on the commodity exchanges of Liverpool, Paris, Rotterdam, Bucharest, Winnipeg and New York...
...families waited in vain for word of 85 of their sons who had been with the 192nd Tank Battalion at Bataan. For most of the families of some 12,000 American soldiers and sailors taken by the Japs-and still unaccounted for-the waiting and suspense only became sharper...
...Letdown. But Army & Navy officials thought the need for a work-or-fight law was sharper than ever. The week's good news pointed up the armed services' greatest fear-that the end of the European war would cause a disastrous letdown on the home front...
Wrong-Way Eddy. His reasons are quite understandable. He was born into a middle-class family of Providence, R.I. He was the awkward kind of schoolboy with blazing red hair who invariably lost his girls to sharper rivals. All thumbs at baseball, too clumsy for soccer, he met the only great chance of his athletic career (an emergency place on the relay team) by grabbing the baton and running the wrong way around the track...