Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agriculture. "I confess that my inheritance and personal experience have bred in me a keen interest in the welfare of agriculture. ... As many as 15 laws have been passed to assist and support this fundamental industry. Through the War Finance Corporation it has been extended credits of between...
...emerged from the angry waters, the surviving players trooped back to finish the tournament. Miriam Burns, defending champion, took dangerous Dorothy Klotz in hand and shot the sodden first nine in 37. Coming in against a north wind, Miriam was 45. This round, the lowest of the meet, was keen enough to subjugate Dorothy, 3 and 2. Edith Cummings, whose third match had been a 5-and-3 win over well-seasoned Mrs. Dave Gaut, of Memphis, took the measure of Mrs. Lee Mida, another of golf's warhorses, and became the other finalist...
...Bush House* in London. The statues, when erected in stone, will be twelve feet high. Each figure rests his arms on a shield bearing the coat-of-arms of his country. England's attitude is one of authority and experience, America's is that of a young athlete, keen, ready...
...Sproule, the affable and keen-minded, can achieve this end, it will be one of the great consolidation achievements of the decade. It will link up a new railway system from Chicago to the Coast. And, incidentally, it will virtually complete the first of the major group consolidations laid out by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its tentative plans for consolidating all the railways of the country into 19 large groups...
...distinguished for its origins as well as its accomplishments. He was educated at Harvard. He was for a time a teacher at Groton School, then turned to editorial and publishing pursuits, and served on various magazines and publishing houses. The Atlantic is interesting because of its Editor's keen interest in present-day affairs, and his unwillingness to be fitted into any groove of opinion. After all, that is the first characteristic, I believe, of a successful editor...