Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued during 1946-47, when the University added $6 million to its common stock investments. Claflin attributes to "larger dividends from common stocks" the fact that in 1947 balances were more favorable than in 1946. Both common stock and government bond rises have been balanced almost entirely by a sharp drop in other long-term bond holdings...
...effect of this casual meeting is powerful. The Freshman receives, in his first personal contact with the Administration, the sharp impression that his life in Cambridge will be planned and executed entirely on his own initiative, guided by nothing but his instinct. That vague thing he knows only as "Harvard", he realizes, does not much care what courses he takes, what field he concentrates in, or what he does in his spare time, so long as he fulfills the provisions of the Rules and Regulations. He understands, furthermore, that his adviser is nothing more than a personification of those rules...
...Benny Meyers had few friends. Gimlet-eyed and sharp-tongued, Benny was not interested in the romance of flying. While other officers spun yarns of the wild blue yonder, Benny studied stock reports. He was murderously good at poker, insisted on high stakes that sometimes ran to $3,000 pots. For an Army officer, he seemed unusually wealthy. He liked to flash $100 bills, recently bought a big, colonial house on Long Island...
...stone weapons, including spearheads, knives and dart points, are fairly well made, their sharp edges finished with delicate flaking. Bone awls and a bone needle indicate that the ancient hunters wore skin clothes of some sort and sewed the edges together...
Special mountaineering equipment protected the painters from the sharp rocks 200 feet below as they carefully stroked on the 10-foot wide symbol...