Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than to disinclination. This is to be deplored, for with more time at his disposal the student could submit reports and small theses on various subjects, and comparison of these with ordinary examinations reveals in a minute their superiority of training. Put a student in the library with a keen interest in some subject on which he expects to prepare a little masterpiece; give him references on which to work, and encourage his eclectic faculty; expect him not only to produce a literary gem, but to glory in his work...
Italy, however, has for long not been keen on the U. S. money market; so, of course, there could be no arrièrepensée behind Mr. Lament's rhapsodies on the Italian landscape. Moreover, financial rehabilitation and gold currency are terms that have not yet been coined in Rome. Clearly, Mr. Lamont was on a vacation. Yet the impression in Wall Street was to the effect that Mr. Lament was not in Italy simply to admire local sunsets and that he may return to Manhattan with something beside good golf scores to show for his "vacation...
...Straton is keen for the idea. Five of nine trustees are against it. One Judge Black, a trustee favoring it, called for the dismissal of one Buzbee, an opposing trustee, from his post as church attorney at $10,000 per year. The meeting dismissed Mr. Buzbee, 95-24. One of the five opposition trustees declared that only the trustees could dismiss him.. There were violent words. Finally, Mr. Buzbee appealed to Dr. Straton to go to God in prayer. Dr. Straton replied he had spent all night in prayer and that God had led him to an assurance that...
...keep his winnings, a nervous breakdown in the crisis. That gets sympathy. It will be more easily visualized if you locate the Emporium in London. Your love theme will be Watling's daughter, who should have been his son, and the amiable loafer of whom she makes a keen business...
...judges of the contest are Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. D. M. Little '18, and Dean E. A. Whitney '17. The standards which they have set for the winning essay include keen recognition of some needed correction and soundness of constructive criticism, combined with literary excellence and taste in style...