Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page measure struck in three directions: at the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act, at the Norris-LaGuardia (anti-injunction) Act, at Communist influence in trade unions. Its chief points (see box) were long, strong and sharp. They were nailed down by stern rules and broad new definitions. The only kind of "compulsory unionism" the bill permitted was the union shop,* and then only if a majority of the workers wanted it and the employer himself had no objection. The bill would safeguard both workers' and employers' rights to speak out against unions. It would deprive workers...
Johnny Chase, leadoff man for the Crimson Freshmen, set the pace in the bottom of the first inning with a sharp single. Two walks surrendered by the Lawrence hurler, Don Homaty, set things up for Cliff Crosby's two run single...
...YORK, April 21--President Truman today coupled a pointed demand for sharp price reductions with an appeal for home front "unity" to avert a major depression which would carry disaster for the forces of democracy the world over...
Though he has learned to fly in the 1,200,000 miles he has ridden airlanes since 1929, Patterson looks, talks, and dresses more like the banker he started out to be. Small (5 ft. 5 in.), pale-faced, with sharp brown eyes, he usually dresses somberly in grey or black pin-striped suits, lets his dreams fly no higher than his staff of air economists permits...
...addition to the regular courses, the high proportion of teachers to pupils in the Department of the Classics--nearly one assistant professor or higher for every three concentrators--makes possible a tutorial system that leaves nothing to be desired and stands in sharp contrast to many of the other departments now so badly in need of adequate tutorial...