Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workers is great, the unions can be weakened, if not actually destroyed, by "open shop" contracts which penalize the worker with discharge if he keeps his union card. But when business begins to revive, as it is reviving now, and unemployment vanishes, the demand for labor is too keen, and the opportunities of quick profits are too tempting to hazard the cost and wastefulness of strikes. It is then more feasible to admit unionism, even the closed shop, and to grant wage increases commensurate with the rise in prices...
...that the incoming class must be enlightened on the opportunities of our voluntary chapel. A very encouraging step was taken in that direction at a meeting of about 25 upper classmen and Freshmen at Dr. E. C. Moore's home on November 20th. The discussion and suggestions showed a keen interest on the part of the first-year men after Dr. Moore and two Seniors had presented the Faculty and undergraduate points of view respectively...
Among the favorite topics of the day are those which have to do with time. Efficiency experts are as keen for the salvation of a minute as for the elimination of a bead of sweat. Jazz, with its syncopated notes, follows the fashion by trying to crowd more "music" into a shorter period. Nor are legislative bodies free from the influences of this movement. Daylight saving, a recurrent cause of conflict, is merely a means to make the most of recreation hours...
...literary family. Her husband, a brother of Frank Norris, is Charles Norris, whose Salt and Brass are both American novels of worth, and she is aunt to the children of William Rose Benet, the poet. Her life has been a varied one, and it shows in her keen understanding of women's hearts and minds, and in her unfailing observation of detail. About to be a debutante in San Francisco, the death of her father and mother, and a reversal of family fortune, made her seek independence. She tried various occupations-with a hardware house, as a librarian...
...wishes to write of the Christ whom he sees in the gospels, without let or hindrance. His style is somewhat wordy, but of unsurpassed brilliance in some parts, as, for example, where he describes the utter lowliness of the manger. Another characteristic of the book is its succession of keen historical settings. In three short pages he traces the history of Israel from the days of the slavery in Egypt to the later slavery under Rome. And he does it with such vividness that the reader really lives in the time of Christ. Renan, Stalker, Edersheim and any number...