Word: sharpers
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...debts. For the first time since they were issued, the Government's new 3¼% 30-year bonds soared past 102, and 2½% Victory Loan bonds went up to 93 30/32, their best price since April. The upturn in the short-term money market was even sharper...
Like the Crimson, Williams did not have any outstanding fullbacks. On several occasions Holmes and Lloyd had maneuvered into the clear very near the cage and could have tallied easily had the passing been a little sharper...
...fellow, he is forever stealing other chaps' "tuck" (cakes, cream puffs, tarts, toffee). He is hopeless at athletics, can't seem to spell ("I wood have toled you myself but you wood not lissen . . ."), is perpetually in a "digamma," and is constantly delivering such Bunterisms as "How sharper than a thankless child it is to have a toothless "serpent...
...assistants are experimenting with the university's new accelerator that should soon be splitting electrons at the highest speed ever reached: 186,000 miles a second, only a fraction slower than the speed of light. With his new microscope, which will put the atomic nucleus in even sharper focus, Hofstadter may well probe to the innermost limits of matter...
...coincidence of new administrations in Washington and Moscow creates a host of urgent questions. The Korean truce crisis opens ill-defined opportunities and painful threats in the struggle for Asia; the European alliance creaks with strain; riots and strikes in East Germany call for a sharper U.S. policy toward West Germany; at home, a new defense budget is tossed about in fuzzy controversy; new Government policies toward taxes, business, farming, labor are on the national agenda...