Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write of a friend who is as straightforward as is Davison, for his character, like that of most strong men, is clear and without picturesqueness, except such picturesqueness as always results when a man is ready to fight a clean fight well. Like his father, he has a keen sense of humor and a love of human beings. His understanding of their foibles and difficulties is extraordinary, and his assumption of many duties has been his only danger. He likes to aid whenever he can, and night and day devotes himself to the study and disentanglement of the important problems...
Very obviously, the much-heralded 1925 cotton crop has been a keen disappointment, owing mainly to the Texas drought. But consumption is on the mend, and losses from the boll weevil have this year apparently run second in importance to losses caused by the weather...
...Majesty Queen Mary, keen tennis enthusiast, went to Wimbledon to watch the tennis tourney for the British Open Championship...
...first point, the verbal struggle was keen. Dr. G. A. Huntley of the Chinese mission field asserted that 49 out of 50 missionaries in China would resign rather than submit to being catechized as to their faith. Dr. Meigs of Illinois, on behalf of the Modernists, proposed to amend the resolution by striking out the insistence on the creed, leaving the statement that the New Testament is the basis of the Baptist faith. The cohorts were summoned to vote. The Modernists polled 742 to the Fundamentalists 574. So the resolution was shorn of its point-and adopted...
...match on the Worcester links this morning will be watched with keen interests by sport lovers the world over. Everyone loves a winner and especially one who starts off badly and recoups himself in the very shadow of defeat. Jone's record, whether he wins or loses, will always be remembered in golf history...