Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer possible to draw a sharp line of distinction between questions of public and private law," Fuller states. Thus, the purpose of the new reforms is to achieve "greater coordination in the curriculum between public and private...
Kremlin's Reward. No one was sure what Anna Louise Strong had done to get this stunning blow. It might be that the party line, which she had followed faithfully for so long, had left her behind somewhere in one of its sudden sharp turns. She might have swallowed her own propaganda, in which she had frequently explained that various Communist parties were simply national patriotic movements; as of the winter of 1948, that was known in Moscow as the "nationalist heresy." Whatever her offense,the Kremlin had in its own way rewarded Anna Louise Strong for a lifetime...
Fretting over the shipping slump, sharp-nosed Harry Bridges, 47, boss of the West Coast longshoremen, stirred up his ulcers so badly that he was hustled off to the hospital, underwent a five-hour operation...
Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see some of the irascible Italian's best work. Centered around the collection of his sketches and drawings belonging to the late Mrs. J. P. Morgan, the exhibit included some of the decorative drawings which influenced English Architect-Decorator Robert Adam. Sharp-eyed observers could see details familiar, in the work of Furniture Designers Chippendale and Sheraton, Potter Josiah Wedgwood. Tangled in some of his lush and complicated grotesques were prototypes of the obelisks, griffins and clawed pedestals which sat so heavily in French drawing rooms of the First Empire. In the towering fagades...
...sequence with Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas--she as a girl with a price tag and he as a man with the price--is next best. This is partially because Thelma Ritter, as a sharp-tongued servant, is seen more in this episode than in the others. Miss Ritter, with the two Mr. Douglases, are most cordially welcomed to the cinema. And Mr. Mankiewicz deserves considerable congratulations...