Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have quite definite information that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...
...strange disciples the one who has caused Mahatma Gandhi the sharpest pangs of dismay is plump & pleasing Nilla Cram Cook, 23-year-old daughter of the late George Cram Cook, Iowa poet. At 19 Nilla Cram Cook married a Greek nobleman. Three years later she was converted to Hinduism under the name of Nilla Nagini and Devi, "The Blue Serpent Lady...
...Certain it is that the left eye, even today, is being used less and less continually. Man's binocular and stereoscopic visions are being destroyed-the price he pays for his speech center. The great cyclopean eye, however, will regain stereoscopic vision by developing two maculae [spots of sharpest vision] in the one eye, just in the fashion in which many birds have stereoscopic vision in each eye now. Although the field of view will then be narrower than now the eye will probably be both microscopic and telescopic; it will be exceedingly acute for colors, for motion...
...sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plunged into a ravine. Sharpest of all is the picture of Johnny's Grandfather Willingdon who came home to Johnny's house when he was an old man. He lived, embittered, eccentric and alone, in a room above the kitchen that was pervaded by the aroma of his kerosene lamp, his dry tobacco...
...heighten the effect he tried to deny himself on the day of the performance to the world's sharpest newshawks-the cameramen of New York Harbor-by shutting himself up in his suite on the world-cruising Empress of Britain. After registering becoming reluctance he emerged at last, only to lose composure when one of the hawks shouted the old cry, "Tell the old fool to turn around!" Shaw, outraged, seized the cameraman and shook him by the shoulders. Meantime other cameras clickety-clicked, including that of the smart Daily News (tabloid) man who had perched above...