Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jumbles Made Sharp. The result was magical. Seismograph records that were hardly more than meaningless jumbles turned into clear, sharp records of distant earthquakes. When Dr. Sutton showed these records to a recent Washington meeting of seismologists, the contrast was so striking that the sophisticated audience burst into applause...
Novelist Wain's assets are a sharp eye for the social fads and furbelows of suburban England, a sharp ear for the mannered vulgarities of middle-class speech. What the book lacks is either the pulse beat of anger or the tart shivers of satirical laughter...
...varsity jumped away to a 2-0 lead in the very first inning. Al Martin was hit by a pitch and went to third when an Eli infielder muffed Chet Boulris' pop-fly. Rodgers then fetched both men home with a sharp single to left...
...sixteen-bus cavalcade, complete with motorcycle escort, transported the graduates and their families to the special Pops Concert. Under the direction of Arthur Fielder, the Orchestra played such favorites as Down the Street, Look Sharp Be Sharp, and the Academic Festival Overture...
After five years, the Prudential Insurance Co. last week won a major victory in its campaign for variable annuities, a new type of insurance designed to protect policyholders against inflation. Under the plan, annuity payments vary according to the price of common stocks in which premiums are invested, a sharp contrast to conventional annuities, which guarantee fixed payment based on traditional insurance company investments, such as mortgages...