Word: keen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many claim that the game is not adaptable to professionals, because much of the interest in football is centered around the college and school atmosphere, so that when the college sentiment is removed, much of the keen rivalry, both from the viewpoint of the spectator and the player, has been removed. They also believe that the player has not the same interest in the game when playing for money as he has when playing for the glory of his Alma Mater. That there is considerable ground for this opinion, especially as regards the last-named feature, seems certain. A number...
...without TIME, for, as you are so often told, you give more information about our country, the rest of the world, science and the arts, to the cubic minute, than any paper I know, and give it in a form that I remember. You are to me like a keen, voluble neighbor with a gift for gathering gossip, but-with scarcely a vestige of breeding! After a dose of TIME I generally resort to the Manchester Weekly Guardian to counteract the effect. Those Guardian fellows are humorous and keen and . . . gentlemen...
...Some keen-eared persons thought the General had said to his colleague: "This is damned rot and ought to be stopped...
Furthermore, the undergraduate mind, I imagine, has changed but little in the last 25 years. Football was as much a topic of conversation in 1900 as in the past fall, and as long as the game is as colorful as it is, as long as the rivalry is as keen, it will continue so, debates and CRIMSON editorials to the contrary...
...long been an open secret that the textile industries of Massachusetts are being hard put to it by the keen competition of the new and steadily growing textile industry of North Carolina, The Massachusetts textile industry has an investment of something like $500,000,000 in the business; it produces about $600,000,000 in goods annually, and employs about 125,000 workers...