Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mental labor, rapid, intense, and sustained. That is the great thing to get in college, long before the professional school is entered. Get it now. Get it in the years of college life. It is the main achievement of college life to win this mental force, this capacity for keen observation, just inference, and sustained thought, for everything that we mean by the reasoning power of man. That capacity will be the main source of intellectual joys and of happiness and content throughout a long and busy life...
When the U. S. entered the World War, the late Franklin K. Lane, then Secretary of the Interior, was called upon by keen-eyed Mr. Campbell, who had a proposition. His idea was that untold quantities of wheat could be grown upon Indian reservation lands lying idle...
...They recalled the bitter fight waged to restore the pound to par ($4.86) though it never sank below $3.37. Before Premier Mussolini and Count Volpi the task looms of raising to 19c odd, a coin now worth less than 4c. The "deflation pains" of Italy seem likely to prove keen...
...that no fleet of Dodge, or any other, cars could go where even camels limp. China teemed with soldiers and brigands. Drought and sand storms were growing yearly worse. . . . But the Dodges pulled again. Urga was reached and passed again and again. Heady preparations, an invaluable caravan chief and keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship and firm purpose seem to have been the prime characteristics of Mr. Andrews' cosmopolitan score of associates, and as their historian, Mr. Andrews is as lively as he is conscientious. He finds room to mention strenuous game...