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Word: sharpness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution, as requested by the President for a joint commission to study Prohibition and recommend if necessary changes in administration and responsibility. The Senate at once began to debate the Hoover attitude on Prohibition. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass, thoroughly Dry and now thoroughly aroused, led the attack. His sharp voice crackled, his small body trembled with indignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War on Two Fronts | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...throne, attended by experts and flanked by 100 newsgatherers, the 14 Council members sat about the Council table (brought especially from Geneva) for four days. From the galleries half the grandees of Spain and members of the Diplomatic Corps, watched the proceedings. Only once were they treated to a sharp word skirmish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Council of Madrid | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Mexican Ambassador Seņor Don Manuel C. Tellez, a young up-from-the-ranks diplomat famed for his sharp humor. A short man with glistening black hair and classic Spanish features, he is the discreetly jovial host at many a lavish entertainment at the Mexican Embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dry Diplomacy | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Harvard's mounts will be shipped to Philadelphia on Thursday and the team will follow on Saturday. The Crimson cohorts first match will be on June 22 with the winner of the West Point-Princeton game. If victorious in this match Coach Sharp's men will battle the winner of the Yale-P. M. C. tilt on June 29 for supreme honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLOISTS STAGE FINAL HOME PRACTICE TODAY | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Coach Sharp has not yet made up his mind definitely as to his starting lineup but it will probably be as follows: No. 1, J. P. Cotton '29 or T. B. Glynn, ocC.; No. 2, T. E. Gerry '31; No. 3, F. A. Clark '29; No. 4, J. P. Mandell '29 or E. K. Jenkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLOISTS STAGE FINAL HOME PRACTICE TODAY | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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