Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctors of philosophy throughout the country requesting a "frank and full opinion" as to the reason for the failure of higher degree holders to become scholars. The ten queries contained in the questionnaire cover the chief factors, economic, scholastic, and moral, which may be contributory to a situation of keen concern to leaders in historical research. The results of this inquisitory campaign will be contained in a report submitted to the Historical Association about December...
...William Williams Keen, surgeon-educator, of Philadelphia: "Irritated by stupid campaigns against vaccination, I wrote last week a letter to the New York Times, in which I said: 'In the U. S. for the seven years from 1919 to 1925 there were 409,639 cases of smallpox. Even granting that the percentage of deaths was very small, there were at least 350,000 or even more cases in which the victims were made repulsive for life by the pitting of their faces and handicapped in both their business and social relations. In addition to this a very considerable number...
...mankind was his second greatest role. He was too gentle, reasonable, humble to quarrel or criticize. Attacks upon himself left him unmoved. Sociably inclined, he had to contend with his fondness for people to get his work done. His love and respect for his children was immense. A keen sportsman in youth, he could hardly bear to dissect pigeons later. The favorite game of his gentle, invalid age is referred to in a letter: "Now the tally with my wife in backgammon stands thus: she, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games while I have won, hurrah, hurrah...
...game than are refinements upon the already adequate protective legislation.* Contrary to popular belief, the migratory game birds of the U. S. are not diminishing but increasing, according to the U. S. Biological Survey. This fact lately led Editor Clark Adams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, himself a keen hunter, to pen an article for the American Game Association entitled "The Hunted Hunter." Excerpts...
...medal eleven years ago in memory of his father, Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818-90), first to use ether as a regular preoperative procedure. This was in 1850. The Bigelow Medal has heretofore been given only to Dr. William James Mayo, in 1921, and to Dr. William Williams Keen of Philadelphia...