Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week that 350 communities throughout the U.S. had closed their hitherto condoned houses of prostitution. Only a year ago 75% to 90% of venereal disease cases were incurred in such houses. Messrs. Taft and Parran and their committees had also persuaded most better-class hotels to keep a sharper eye on their bellboys' habit of sneaking in "call girls...
...growing epidemic of heart disease among younger men aroused suspicion among insurance doctors. Proof of the fraud was finally obtained when claimants were kept in hospitals until their drugged hearts returned to normal. But for several of the swindlers the story had a sharper moral: they found that their hearts had really been injured...
Already the U.S. had tasted, if only lightly, the blood, sweat, toil and tears of war. But the taste would become sharper as the manpower program forced men to work or fight, regardless of family ties...
...have, all his acts and speeches must have a different and a sharper meaning for you now. Every time you see his name in the papers you can see his face, hear him rolling his "r's" or slurring his "g's." Everything you read or hear about him is colored by those visual impressions of weakness or strength, ignorance or knowledge, charlatanism or statesmanship you received when you last saw him. And when you see his name in the papers, he is not just a name any longer...
Preparing for the invasion of Dartmouth's Indians tomorrow night in a non League tussle, the puck-Chasers went about their task with very little ado, and didn't let up once along the way. The Harvard passing was sharper than it had been in recent contests, and Coach John Chase was pleased with what went...