Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make Manhattan as dry as the letter of the Volstead Act, few paying any special attention to Attorney Buckner's able young assistants, who conducted much of the cross-questioning. Yet for persons to whom Manhattan's nympholepsy and relative humidity have no charm, the case still had keen interest, since one of the young assistant attorneys chanced to be John Marshall Harlan, grandson and namesake of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan, who sat on the U. S. Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911. There was a piquant index to the course of U. S. legal history...
Another factor to consider is that competition really is a detriment to a good shot putter. In some events the athlete can do better work when the competition is keen. In running events it is an asset to be keyed up, but that does not apply to the shot put. Look back over the records and you will find that the best marks have been made when the mental strain was lacking. It does not necessarily follow that a man is a poor competitor when he fails to make his best mark in the Intercollegiate competition. The same strain which...
...working people of the United States will observe with keen interest this experimentation in the use of the sympathetic strike as a means of bringing about the settlement of a wage controversy in a single industry...
...been asked whether I consider Berna's record to be within the reach of Tibbetts of any other competitor in the forthcoming struggle on May 29. Frankly, such an opinion must be based on pure guesswork, for the weather must be just right, the track fast and the competition keen. An adverse wind would militate against a runner of Tibbetts' comparatively frail physique, but if conditions are ideal it is within the possibilities that the collegiate record will be lowered...
...Real name, MacMullen. Born 37 years ago in Ulster, he attended Cambridge University, and now serves the British Crown in the Ministry of Labor. One of the quietest Irishmen alive, he is known to few people. Acquaintances have marked him as interesting, keen, observant. Mrs. Mac-Mullen is better known as Actress Mary Sumner...