Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the dinosaurs on land, the seas swarmed with these reptiles, sometimes reaching 30 feet in length. They developed a true fish shape, together with front and hind paddles, and some of them had a fish-shaped tail and dorsal fin. Their jaws were long and armed with many sharp-pointed, conical teeth. So numerous were these animals that in the Mesozoic Age they ruled the sea, and even the sharks had difficulty competing with them...
...Eastman has a faithful, attendant physician, Dr. Albert D. Kaiser. His sharp ears caught the sound of a hasty knock as the sleeping car attendant dashed past his door. "I arose," said Dr. Kaiser afterward, "and found Eastman sleeping peacefully. ... I told him to fly. ... He grabbed for his clothes, but I shouted: 'Leave everything! Not a second to lose...
...list of men retained follows: P. J. W. Bove '29, E. D. Wheeler '28, W. A. Fowlie '30, G. A. Weller '29, O. E. Vaccaro '29, T. H. Eliot '28, Theodore Hall Jr. '29, R. H. Sharp '30, R. C. Weaver '29, S. F. Feyler '30, H. A. Wolff '29, A. D. Howlett '28, J. L. Ware '30, F. E. Shea '29, J. F. Harding '30, Abbot Peterson Jr. '30, and T. M. Stensland...
...smoldering haze that hangs upon them, no one knows. They stretch for 200 miles northeast and southwest paralleling the Blue Ridge (40 miles southeast). Master chain of the Appalachians, they wall off Tennessee from North Carolina. Near a place called Indian Gap, the snag-toothed divide is so sharp that a mountaineer's misstep would plunge him dizzily into one State or the other...
...time George Godfrey, 240-pound black man has been giving people the impression that he could knock out Dempsey and Tunney the same night if he would only try. For a long time George Godfrey has demanded what he thinks he deserves-a match with Tunney. Only a few sharp-eyed critics have warned George Godfrey that the trouble with demanding what he deserves is that he might get it. Last week in Los Angeles George Godfrey met squatty Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, who still has to bring an interpreter to the ring so that he can understand what the referee...