Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dave Cairns, Dave Gregory, Ron Berman, Jim Downey, Bill Montague, Ed Grutzner, Steve Sharp and Tom McGrath compose the group that consistently score sweeps in the middle distances and the mile...
Today is the last day for students to turn in their preliminary study cards without paying $10 for the privilege. The doors at University 2 close at 5 p.m. sharp...
...Spanish, can talk in either language with literary dignity or colloquial directness. Every observer who has talked with him or watched him campaigning has marveled at the kind of automatic transmission in his mind which enables him to shift his conversation or speeches into language of such needle-sharp simplicity and directness that it can go straight to the heart and mind of the humblest and least educated hearer. This has been a priceless gift. Muñoz built his political career on the support of Puerto Rico's jibaros, the small farmers and rural workers who comprise about...
...first man had left out. The added bits did not help much, but Axtell's colorless glue was a great improvement. Before, the breaks in the glass had been apparent several feet away; last week, with the urn again on exhibition in the British Museum, it took a sharp eye to detect the breaks...
...listeners, gone downhill as well. Its programs rely heavily on the playing of short, and often inferior Rombergish selections, and are surfeited with mediocre commercials. Longer symphonic works mean less space for commercial plugs, and have therefore dropped to second place in programming. Listener reaction has been sharp: "The trouble is," says Program Director John Thornton, "that people expect a lot, and give nothing in return. When the Endowment Series was discontinued, we received over a thousand letters from our listeners. But if the deficit on the Series were divided among these people, it would have cost them around...