Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a Crimson team with a first-rate defense and some brilliant pitching. Repetto has been masterful against Princeton and Brown, and Bob McGinnis was never better than against Holy Cross. Yet sometimes the pitchers don't find the spots, and on these occasions sharp defensive play has helped considerably...
...writing totally smothered the less penetrating middle strings. The scherzo was stylistically consistent; but the other three movements were episodic and eclectic, the slow movement even starting with homage to Bloch's 'cello rhapsody Schelomo. Bavicchi anchored the first movement on recurrences of a sustained 'cello note punctuated by sharp jabs on the piano, which functioned like the trombone theme in Sibelius' Seventh Symphony...
...courses, and eventually were to use common textbooks (to be produced by Nasser's professors). The Nabulsi government also initialed an agreement with Syria for a customs and currency union that would shortly have shifted Jordan's economic capital to Damascus-an arrangement that Jerusalem's sharp traders were slow in getting wise to. In their first months in office, Nabulsi's leftists brought the Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy by a pledge of financial help from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (which only oil-rich Saudi Arabia...
...first to set the rule writers working. Leading off second in a game with the Milwaukee Braves, Base Runner Hoak started for third when Cincinnati's Wally Post laced a grounder to short. Redleg Gus Bell, who had been holding first, took off for second. With his sharp infielder's eye, Hoak recognized the setup for an almost certain double play. With his sure infielder's hands he fielded the ball, tossed it to the Braves' astonished shortstop, Johnny Logan. "Hit" by a batted ball, Hoak was automatically out, but there was no double play...
...phosphor can be used for TV too. The picture will form as usual when the set is turned on, but light coming from the room will be reflected very weakly. Most of it will pass into the interior of the tube and be lost. So the picture will stay sharp and clear with full daylight shining on the tube...