Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hard-faced but mild-mannered Maj. Gen. John Archer Lejeune last week prepared to turn over the swivel chair in which reposes the Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, to his sharp-eyed friend Maj. Gen. Wendell Gushing Neville...
There were some sharp-eyed men, friends of the white woman's, at the ceremony. After it they shook their heads dubiously. The Kansas marriage laws relating to Indians might be tricky, they said. So the sharp-eyed men and the woman-he had learned her name now: Anna Laura Lowe-took Jackson Barnett to Independence, Mo., and had the marriage performed a second time. That struck Jackson as unfair. He had not cared much about getting married once. Twice was much big nuisance, too much...
...Sharp official eyes search the gay streets of the Greek quarter of Tarpon Springs, Fla. Alien sponge divers (TIME, Jan. 21) move aside, shift their glance away. Along the waterfront, among the gaudy antique boats', has gone the whispered warning: U. S. Immigration inspectors are about the town to check smuggling of aliens. Every stranger is a suspect...
...Nichols' protest is more convincing. In a lively and intentionally overdrawn sketch of Harvard life thirty years from now he brings into sharp relief many of the absurdities of the House Plan as it is envisaged by its present supporters. The scheme of arbitrary assignment to Houses in accordance with the idea of a cross-section composition for each calls forth the following remarks from a proselyting member of Unit C: "When your application blanks come you must on no account mention Unit C." "Why?" "Because the dean will think you want to join the units you list because...
Where the fangs enter, a sharp burning pain is immediately felt. It gets worse. The wounds bleed; the parts get blue and swell. Numbness sets in and spreads; vomiting begins; breathing becomes difficult; paralysis starts. The victim suffocates, dies. Each year some 5,000 such tortured deaths occur in India. In the U. S. last year there were 27 reported. There might have been more, for at least 507 persons here were bitten by rattlers, moccasins, copperheads, massasaugas and corals. They are the only poisonous snakes in Canada and the U. S. More of the bitten might have died...