Word: sharpers
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...Sharper Brains. The Army was interested but unconvinced by Miller's informal and solitary experiment. He turned to tired, tense businessmen to prove that a loose, energy-conserving body means a keener mind in the clutches. Miller proved a crack salesman. Fat fees flowed in from Tulsa and Kansas City oiligarchs...
...things as: spectacle lenses that will cut out bright-light reflections for their wearer and be almost invisible to others; glareless car windshields; more visible dashboards and instrument panels; store windows, showcases, picture frames, watch crystals and clockfaces so clear that the glass is invisible;-faster camera lenses, producing sharper pictures; clearer movies and television...
...hardly likely that bombardment alone could shake the Japs loose from Kiska. Like moles, they would have to be ferreted out with sharper weapons...
...tenet of British and U.S. planning: no second front, in the Mediterranean or elsewhere, will be attempted until it is almost certain to succeed. The Russians may think this conception is over-timid and wrong. Others, like Airman de Seversky, think it overlooks opportunities to shorten the war by sharper, more imaginative strategy. But, for better or for worse, it is the adopted conception...
Most observers could tell from a person's appearance whether he was bold or fearful, gay or morose, intelligent or stupid. They were less successful in detecting inner feelings. But with training in sharper observation, the judges' appraisals grew more penetrating; for example, by noting exaggerated mannerisms and subtle hesitations they could determine when boldness merely cloaked a feeling of inferiority...