Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me to express to the Editorial Department my keen delight in every number of TIME, its admirable condensed style, pithy news and incisive comments, at times caustic but never ill-natured, and also my admiration for the patience and toleration it shows to the microcephalic morons who so frequently vent their spleen and exhibit their ignorance in the puerile letters of complaint or protest over negligible trifles, which TIME fearlessly prints from week to week. May your circulation ever increase...
Watts Gunn beat W. G. Brownlow. Brownlow was obviously stale, almost as stale as Tolley. Gunn, keen as mustard, won hole after hole, finished...
Precocious U. S. tots, keen students of geography, might have nonplussed their parents last week by "bounding" Great Lebanon as follows: "North, the Nahr-el-Kebir; south, the frontier of Palestine; west, the Mediterranean coast; east, the heights of anti-Lebanon." Super-tots lisped that Beirut is the seat of government; that the population was 628,863 at last reports; that cedars have given the country universal fame...
...this year's tournament should be one of the closest in the history of the sport. It will bring forth keen competition, certainly, for the University, Yale...
...present writer the movement seems wholly good if the professor recognizes the situation in time. The student's questioning of the value of religion in daily life is equally to the good if church leaders recognize the situation in time. All these revolts and objections are evidences of keen intellectual enthusiasm, of the discovery that participation in the real life of the world is much more fun than playing with the ephemeral ideals of the campus...