Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hockey season has already started with a 3-0 victory for Smith Hall over Standish and a Standish victory over Gore by the score of 2-1. Keen competition is being shown in this sport as demonstrated by the last game in which two extra periods were necessary to play off a 1-1 tie. All Freshmen who have elected hockey as their compulsory exercise and have not got a position on the regular Freshman squad are divided into groups, each man being assigned to his own dormitory. Practice is planned for three days a week...
Although the Crimson grapplers face a stiff schedule, the prospects for a successful season are good, and the matches this evening will be keen and spirited as the competition for the team is close in many cases. With the exception of Curtis Nelson '24, Coach Jedlinski has the whole squad in condition for the bouts this evening...
...explanation for this striking change is found in the fact that advertising as a profession is a brand new thing. What was once novelty has now become the daily work of hundreds of hard-headed business men, keen students of buying and selling psychology. No wonder, then, that in place of startling patterns and catchy phrases in periodical advertisements--the most convenient place to observe the metamorphosis of the new profession--we find delicate illustrations of real artistic merit, explained by well-chosen words of a literary turn. The appeal today is based on something more than novelty; it rests...
Thus in "Shavings" we find a lovable chap who by his wit and keen horse sense succeeds in keeping two of the "leading citizens" from ruining one another and brings a charming love affair to its proper conclusion. The whole forms a "character study" of no little power...
...scarcely proper, in reviewing a publication, to begin with the columns of book reviews. In this case, however, this department is so clearly the best thing in the magazine that it might almost deserve priority. They are all excellent, and show a keen appreciation of literary values and no small ability in technical criticism. "Washington Close-ups" receives its just valuation, and is not permitted to take rank beside "The Mirrors of Downing Street", to which position so many reviewers seem willing to raise it. Occasionally, one feels the lack of literary background on the part of the reviewer, especially...