Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed man stood beaming. He it was who had staged this performance. From afar he had brought the properties-the locomotive, cars and station.* Into the deaf inventor's ear he shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only Stage-Setter Ford's prolog. Proudly...
Kolster Radio Corp., down from 78¾ to 15.* Bear argument: Small earnings, keen competition to come from the new General Motors-General Electric-Westinghouse-Radio Corp. manufacturing combine...
...last week keen-eyed Mr. Schulte were sitting in his office, famed for its cramped dinginess, he might well have pondered over the following table...
With the memory of the Army's last visit to Cambridge still fresh the University turns this morning with keen anticipation to the second coming of the Corps within as many years. The meeting with the Academy a year ago marked the resumption of athletic relations on the football field after a lapse of thirty-three seasons. This renewing of a contact which in the past has been characterized by its cordial sportsmanship and which in the present gives so much satisfaction, stands forth in the undergraduate mind as probably one of the most agreeable results of the recently inaugurated...
...Damoclean sword has been hanging over the tobacco industry. Instead, two keen blades have been slashing away at it. Last week there were indications that firm hands had reached out, stopped one blade and grasped at the other. First and most destructive of the industry's two menaces has been the price cutting war between manufacturers, begun in April, 1928 when the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reduced the price of Camels from the long established rate of $6.40 a 1,000 to $6. Quick to follow were Liggett & Myers with Chesterfields and Piedmonts, and the American Tobacco...