Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wearied with futile anxieties about the future. It is not for us to plan the unattainable. It is for us, in our day and generation, to play our part. . . . You will find us keen in trade, zealous for the advantages of commercial intercourse, but no one knows us well who fails to recognize, despite all our shortcomings, the dominance among us of the ideals of independence and democracy...
...terms of the wave length of cadmiun light. It was he who helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer, nor as an excellent violinist, nor as a keen tennis player, nor as an amateur of literature and drama. A self-taught artist, Dr. Michelson had his only instruction in drawing as a midshipman at Annapolis...
...stay at St. Pertersburg had awakened in him a keen interest in the history and politics of Slavic Europe and the Near East, and it was largely...
...little white spot dances slowly around the cabin of The Spirit of St. Louis. Col. Lindbergh is meticulously examining the ship by electric flashlight; guaranteeing to himself her fitness. In her cabin he stows unaccustomed implements, fish hooks, a cruel, keen machete.* Fish hooks for food; the knife to cut a path out of any tangled jungle into which ill luck may spill...
...Louis, and re mained its manager for a quarter century. During that time the Cupples Company was agent for many firms; owner of potent enterprises. So shrewd was Mr. Brookings' management of the Cupples fortunes and his own that 32 years ago he retired. Thereafter he devoted his keen talents to education and benevolence. President of Washington University Corporation, St. Louis; President of Robert Brookings Graduate School in Economics and Government, Washington; an organizer of the War Industries Board; on the Foreign Purchasing Commission with Bernard M. Baruch and Judge R. S. Lovett through which all monies loaned...