pointed

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Appeared in the January 3, 2026, print edition as 'How One Genius Pointed Billions of People the Right Way'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

Pointed bullets and revolver pistols were not invented until the 1830s; the Spencer repeating rifle, the technological edge that helped the Union win the Civil War, was not designed until 1860.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

Pointed out that people will jokingly call the team Commies, Wright demurred.

From Washington Times • Feb. 2, 2022

The book, published by Pointed Leaf Press in November, has a foreword by potter and interior designer Jonathan Adler and an introduction by Los Angeles Times contributor David A. Keeps.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2015

Pointed to the streets I would pass: “Forty-Fifth, Forty-Sixth, Forty-Seventh...just stay on this street and count up when you going to school and down when you coming home and you’ll be all right,” he said.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome