Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shown always a keen interest in the University, being an overseer from...
...take him further than Boston, so that he will still be available for counsel and assistance." Mr. Coolidge said: "The loss of J. R. Hamlen's active service as secretary of the Alumni Association is a great loss to graduates and undergraduates alike. With his wide acquaintance, his keen understanding of academic problems, and his untiring energy and devotion to Harvard, he has made himself indispensable as a link between the past and the present of the University. We all will miss him here and we all wish him equal success in the new engagements he is about to undertake...
...unusually keen-cut terms the Mahatma proposed that the Congress deliver to the British Government an ultimatum in the following sense...
...were of relatively slight interest to such typical Paris tycoons as M. Henri Letellier, publisher of the world's third largest newspaper, Le Journal. It was M. Letellier who employed, as his confidential and executive secretary until recently, the cherubic Erskine Gwynne. But tout Paris took keen interest, last week, at reports that Nephew Gwynne had actually completed a whole fortnight's visit in Manhattan without doing anything outrageous, and had been received as persona grata by General and Mrs. Vanderbilt. Today Nephew Gwynne-no bankrupt-is the solvent, industrious and incorporated publisher of The Boulevardier, a Paris...
...Keen has been the rivalry between two most famed sporting shops. Over the question of whether Von Longerke & Detmold, Inc. (349 Madison Ave.) sold more alluring and successful trout flies than Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (360 Madison Ave.). Many a family has been divided against itself. Last week such families were again united, as were the two shops, in a sporting merger...