Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public service equal to Mr. Coolidge's -even a larger public service because Metropolitan Life is far larger than New York Life. A mutual company is owned by its policy holders, who share in its profits, whereas non-mutual companies are owned by stockholders who alone receive dividends. Sharp rivalry exists between Mr. Coolidge's company and Mr. Smith's company. A comparison: Mr. Smith's Company Assets-$2,695,475,965 1928 Income-$743,412,385 Policies in force-$42,329,281 Insurance in force-$16,371,956,002 Mr. Coolidge's Company Assets...
...Sharp eyes picked out famed newcomers: Illinois's Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, in sheer white; New York's Mrs. Ruth Pratt next to her swart Manhattan colleague, Mr. La Guardia; Florida's Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, resplendent in solid black with a rope of pearls; dark Oscar de Priest, the grey-wooled Negro from Illinois, far in the rear...
...gingerly, took aboard great men in black clothes to stand, lost in their own thoughts, about the casket. On a mulberry-colored cushion rested the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin, carried it cautiously down the green-carpeted gangplank, through the purple-and-black draped pier to a black caisson drawn by six horses. As if freighted with the sorrow of two nations, the casket became unmanageably heavy...
...likes the taste of butter "straight" less than His Majesty's bantamweight, peppery Secretary of State for Dominions & Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day in London, tasting samples at the Australian Butter Show. Prizes had been offered by the Orient Steam- Navigation Co., Ltd. (whose packets ply to Australia) for "the best export butter"-one which would still be "best" after the 13,000-mile voyage to England. Each sample had been point-scored when shipped...
...summoning his men Captain F. D. Sharp, polo coach, is starting practice early, for the first game does not come until May 18, when the Crimson team rides against the cadets at West Point. However with a good indoor record behind them the chances for a highly successful outdoor campaign look bright and therefore Coach Sharp is anxious to get his team in the best possible shape early. Furthermore there will be the job of filling the place of Captain F. A. Clark '29, who as crew captain will have to devote his entire time to that sport. Clark will...