Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, but nevertheless they still rouse suspicion that the Administration is not neutral. In striving for its immediate objective, repeal, it may well have raised a Frankenstein of anti-German feeling that will destroy its efforts to keep us out of war. The time has come for a sharp change of front. If the old accusation, "Pro-German!" is heard, it will be well to remember that Americans and Germans alike will have a medal ready for the man who can keep us out of this...
...article in the forthcoming issue of the Progressive, the head of the Slavic department takes several sharp pokes at the Administration's tenure policy. He recommends "some latitude in the number of associate professors allowed to demonstrably understaffed departments" as the "most rational solution," and one which will not unbalance the budget...
Portly, jovial Alexander Brook, 41, took the news of his prize calmly. He has been giving shows, winning medals, selling pictures to museums for 17 years. For even longer he has been married to sharp-nosed, sharp-witted Caricaturist Peggy Bacon. Artist Brook painted Georgia Jungle on a trip to Savannah last winter, finished it in three or four days. At Los Angeles, where he is teaching at the Otis Art Institute, Painter Brook told an interviewer last week: "To me it was a sad scene, and I guess I like sad things. . . . What does anyone do with...
...number of English concentrators has suffered a sharp decline of over one hundred students since 1937. This fall only nine per cent are concentrating in English as compared with 12 per cent two years...
...catches up with history. A young (34) history instructor at New York University, previously known for a brilliant History of Mexico and for a few remarkably lucid essays, Parkes has tested the dogma of the Left in the light of history and reason, drawn his conclusions, brought them into sharp focus with political facts, and thereby outlined a progressive program with at least theoretical drive and good sense...