Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately, King Alexander of Jugoslavia not only reigns but rules. He is in touch with political leaders of all factions and is rated keen at sensing trends. The weight of his personality held the nation and the stock exchange at Belgrade steady, last week, amid the following vicissitudes...
...University fencing team expects to encounter keen opposition from Columbia at the Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
This particular account of a candidates impressions is in many respects the life-like, but not uncommon story of keen contest, disappointment, weariness, excitement, and the fascination of a newspaper office. But it also suggests another factor which is particularly important in college journalism, and which goes further than anything else to explain why great numbers of American college students will devote themselves body and soul to the pursuits of news and an editorship...
...would cease. The same problem, indeed, arose in regard to all members of the staff. whether engaged in giving courses or in tutoring. With the rising of the quality of instruction one giving of courses has become a more laborious matter than in the past. The students are more keen, more ready to criticize and discuss, and a course given one year cannot be repeated the next with as little preparation as formerly. As compared with European universities our periods of lecturing are nearly half as long again, and the vacations, in which the professor has a full chance...
...sums were spent with a devoted flourish. Few men would take such risks. Mr. Miller escapes with every honor. The Patriot is a production to be respected deeply, to be seen by many people with great interest, to be regretted by many for a stateliness which robbed it of keen relish...