Word: keen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates on the Republican side will be made up by the committee and published together with all final arrangements either Saturday or Monday. The fact that four candidates have been chosen instead of three, owing to the interest developed at the caucus last night, shows that there is keen and active rivalry among the friends of the various leading candidates...
...Harvard Medical School will give a smoke talk before the members of the St. Paul's Society on next Wednesday evening at half past eight o'clock in 15 Holworthy Hall. Dr. Blake is one of the most eminent doctors in Boston, and has always maintained a keen interest in the society. The subject of Dr. Blake's address will be "The Care and Use of the Body...
...done, upon what Burns did not accomplish in poetry-to note and cherish what he did accomplish. This divides itself easily into two classes-first such remarkable geure pictures of the life of the people as "The Jolly Beggars," "Halloween," and a dozen other vigorous examples; and second those keen, sweet songs in which the passions of patriotism, of drink, above all of love, are expressed with a perfectness and a concentration unequalled in modern literature...
Christ teaches mankind the broadminded faculty, the freedom from gross materialism, which in art we call imagination, in philosophy idealism, in religion, faith. This is the gift which the world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
...Smollett's word, the great Cham of literature-remained a pervading quality of his great, uncouth, impeded man of genius. He asked an old beggar woman, who accosted him once in the street, who she was, and her reply that she was an old struggler gave the doctor keen delight. Johnson, too, so he rejoined, was an old struggler, and bestowed upon the beggar woman all the money he had in his pockets. And this sense of pain and struggle can never be lost in any true estimate of Samuel Johnson...