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Word: keen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keen, well informed observers of Bulgaria deemed that Tsar Boris, able, potent, had spoken the exact truth. Bulgarian security is good and the country sound, despite frequent cabinet upsets, which always seem to end in a resumption of power by Prime Minister Andrei Liapchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Cabinet Busting | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Observers took keen interest in the fact that young, spirited, dynamic Finance Minister Montes de Oca has swallowed with such enthusiasm the Canadian doctor's bulky capsule: denationalization of railways. In Mexico, where advanced social theorizing is typical of even elder politicians, young Minister Montes de Oca might well have aspired to become a benevolent Railway Tsar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Canadian's Advice | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...following with keen interest the many letters from your subscribers asking why Billy Sunday has not held a revival in New York since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...search to discover these facts kept 48 planes busy for two days. The keen eyes of Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, president of the Curtiss Flying Service, were the first to spot the wreckage-an ugly hole in the dark green woods below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Killed in Action | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...famed as Mr. "F. E." Smith before his elevation, and since "Ephesian," when pronounced, sounds like " 'F. E.' sian," it was supposed for a time that the noble Earl had himself penned these two books, which seem the product of a brain almost, if not quite as keen, as his: "the keenest legal brain in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vin Mousseux de Champagne | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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