Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic question of comparative study habits, excellence, and aptitude for reading and examinations has been shown in sharper light by this year's experience. Harvard students have traditionally maintained that 'Cliffedwellers are grinds--that they study by rote, that they think little if at all, that they put the fishhooks on the end of every grading curve. Some of these contentions are apparently borne out by the first year of practical experience. The Radcliffe Dean's office agrees that the new system is strange for the girls--"They feel a little lost in those big classes"--but claims that they...
...gives TIME the hours it needs to present the news with sense-making background. That the news in TIME reaches the reader later than newspapers or radio might bring it is an obvious disadvantage to him. Only if its presentation of news is better than the newspaper reports (i.e., sharper in detail, keener in insight, easier to read, understand and remember), can TIME overcome the disadvantage of being "late." When the advantage outweighs the disadvantage, TIME has a value; when it doesn't, TIME hasn't. That is the challenge that forces TIME'S staff to work...
...story Mr. Roberts isn't much-and isn't meant to be. It's as a human picture that it triumphs-a human picture in which frustration lives on delightful if not always convincing terms with farce. Tempers get sharper as everything else on the AK 601 gets duller. Denied the simpler masculine pleasures, guys cook up the most elaborate schoolboy pranks; the brinier the life, the earthier the lingo...
...developments proving that Marx's main assumptions were wrong. He assumed, for example, that the spectacular poverty of industrial workers of his day would spread and deepen. The capitalist philosophers, who predicted rising living standards, were right. A hundred years after the Manifesto, however, the class struggle is sharper in spite of the fact that the living standard of the "exploited classes" is almost everywhere higher than it has ever been...
...waves start from the roof of a Telephone Co. building in Manhattan. A tricky metallic "lens" concentrates them into a narrow beam, sharper than the shaft of a searchlight, which points at the first relay station atop Jackie Jones Mountain, 35 miles away. A receiving lens gathers in the waves; an amplifier hops them up; a second transmitter beams them to the next hilltop relay. They make eight jumps to reach Boston...