Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates, if they have less intellectual discipline than the more studious Oxford men, are more keen, alert, inquiring, and equally stimulating to their teachers...
...made out of the game, originally a gruesome and dangerous contest, the modern popular sport. The ancient Indian war game was a relic of pure savagery. The players often died from exhaustion, due to frenzied exertion, and the wounds they inflicted upon each other in order to make more keen their interest in the play. The goal posts were miles apart. One side attacked, and the other defended. Aside from this, there was no strategy involved; victory depended purely upon the individual endurance, courage, and stamina of the players...
...asked only that we should bring with us a few flowers, as though he desired to inhale for the last time the perfume and beauty of living things before returning to earth. The perfume of those flowers is wafted over him now and with it the nostalgia of our keen and true friendship...
...convention of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Business held in Columbus, O., on May 7, 8 and 9, 1925, a considerable portion of the discussion was concentrated upon the case method of teaching. While the interest was keen and widespread, it was forcefully brought to our attention that this case material is not available in sufficient quantities or in the ideal form for use in teaching in other schools. Our own instructors have access to much more of this material than is now available to others, and are frequently able to obtain supplementary facts on cases under discussion which...
...Healing. Differential Diagnosis, What Men Live By, Laymen's Handbook of Medicine, Rewards and Training of a Physician, Social Work. His later books reveal a shrewd estimate of the popular intelligence. While they never decoy the reader into bypaths, still they are in startling contrast to the keen methodology of his earlier, more scholarly tomes...