Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white pages of World's Work (monthly) word followed word with seemingly unimpeachable logic. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington correspondents, wrote as he had written many times before. Genially, understandably, he eulogized the six-year record of keen-minded Andrew Mellon as Secretary of the Treasury, explained how he had reduced the national debt between Aug. 31, 1919, and Dec. 31, 1926, from 26.6 billion dollars to 19.1 billions...
...Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student has certain things to contribute to discussion and settlement of these problems, a keen and vital interest, a different approach, and a unique pertinence and relevancy of include. The administrators of Harvard University are to be congratulated on recognizing the value of these things and on having established the one policy which will make it even greater...
...necessary, nor is it desirable, to exhort people to come out for the Crimson. Those with keen minds and adventurous hearts will be present on the opening night of a competition as a matter of course. And those who wish to pursue the even tenor of their ways had best remain discreetly away
...Perhaps they are. And perhaps that is why they enjoy themselves so intensely. Certainly there is a contagious thrill to newspaper work quite as keen on the Crimson as on any metropolitan. daily. One has the run of seeing events all meetings people at fret traid or, as Philip Gibbs has expressed it, of sitting in a front seat at the peep show of life...
...other tournaments the number of entrants still left is greatly reduced, but competition is keen and there are no outstanding contenders...