Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early Warning. At present the Forest Service is deploying the chemical traps only as an early warning system to measure any sharp increase in the moths' population, which occurs about once a decade. But it is also considering stronger measures: spraying whole forests of firs with the love potion, so confusing the males that they will be unable to locate any females to mate with. Explains Daterman: "It's analogous to putting a male human into a room with his girl friend, turning out the lights and then spraying her perfume all over the place...
This route parallels the construction as far as the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, at which point you take two sharp lefts and hopefully find yourself at the left front door entrance to the rink. If not, then hail...
Less than a minute later, Northeastern's Mike McMillen trotted into the penalty box, followed soon thereafter by teammate Mike Holmes. Some sharp saves by Bowman and sloppy passing by the Crimson teamed up to wipe out the two man advantage, however, and the Huskies maintained their 2-1 lead until the third period barrage did them...
...flicker of a TV set as the dial is clicked: rocket, eagle, Kennedy, dancer, oranges, box, all registered with the peacock-hued, aniline-sharp intensity of electronic color. The subject was glut...
Recent allegations that a famous English psychologist falsified the data that led him to conclude intelligence is highly hereditary have led to a sharp controvery among experts at Harvard and other universities over the validity of those conclusions...