Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would. Her essays are among the most polished, civilized, smooth-flowing products of contemporary pens. Her erudition is always so glossed over with silken-smooth phrasing that one does not at once compass its depth. In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values...
Although European bankers had promised to provide all the money for the $50,000,000 international Hungarian loan, keen satisfaction was displayed in Hungary when a reallotment of the loan to the extent of $10,000,000 was made to a group of U. S. bankers. Said Premier Count Stephen Bethlen: "We had already obtained from the principal banks of Europe guarantees for the whole of the $50,000,000 required. Our appreciation of the present American action is therefore relatively disinterested and all the more sincere." Describing the policy of his Government as one of peace and reconstruction...
...with over 1,100 miles as the world's record balloon flight. This - the 13th contest - was marked by none of the terrible accidents of last year, when three aeronauts lost their lives in a thunderstorm. The race was in no way remarkable nor was the competition as keen as had been expected. The balloon of Captain E. H. Honeywell, veteran American, on whom U. S. hopes were concentrated, landed at Rouen with only 181 miles to its credit; and another American entry, with Maj. Peck and Lieut. Grey, landed at Malmedy without even leaving Belgian soil...
...mean a stern and forbidding elderly schoolmaster, extreme to mark what is done amiss; or else a grim king on a throne, who is more concerned with sins than with the people who commit them; or else (to our shame, this!) a celestial treasurer, an expert accountant, with a keen eye on the subscription list and collection plate. And when we speak of Christ they suppose we mean a listless, effeminate, oriental ascetic, or else the tyrannical Son of an imperious Father, sent to enforce His laws on an invaded and conquered country. And they think that we mean...
...received your wire and subsequently a booklet announcing the action taken by the Harvard Democratic Club at its mock convention in naming me for vice-president. Permit me to express to you, and, through you, to your associates, my very keen appreciation of the regard thus manifested toward me. It is particularly gratifying to me to be so honored by a group of young men, naturally forward-looking, preparing for the serious tasks of life. There is a splendid opportunity before you to render signal service to your country by inculcating the sound principles of government associated with the name...