Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before leaving the Locker Building last night, Coach Farrell announced that he would scrutinize the results of this meet with keen interest...
...Dean Stone was rubicund, smooth-shaven, cheerful-a jovial good fellow in any other atmosphere, I thought. And keen! Startling questions popped out of his mouth, several times leaving me gasping weakly like a fish and chasing my poor brains in a jog-trot down a dusty, cloudy track. He had me in front of him,. hat in hand, at attention with a confounded stenographer peering at my face with the watchfulness of a setter dog whenever my answers were slow in issuing. I wish I had a transcript of the testimony, for when I emerged I found I couldn...
That the mock Democratic Convention last night was "something well worth doing and an evidence of the keen and serious political interest in the student body was the opinion of Professors W. E. Hocking 01 and J. L. Conger who listened to the entire meeting. They both claimed immunity, however, from the questions of the CRIMSON reporter, saying that it was fortunately, a student affair...
...packers, and the railroads are too recent to have been quite forgotten; and they serve to prove rather pointedly that the "spur of competition", for which Mr. Mackay pleads, leads but to monopoly and its evils. His case rests upon the assumption that the private entrepreneur bitterly pressed by keen business rivals will always act for the eventual good of the public...
...comparison which Professor Morize draws between American and French education, for his remarks do not seem entirely applicable to England--indicates a keen insight and suggests an unusual analytical explanation of present day conditions both in this country and abroad. The French have often been termed the most intelligent people in the world, and the Americans have been similarly flattered by being called the most idealistic. It is quite probable that both generalities are capable of only occasional application, but the fact that they have gained a certain amount of popular credence is in itself significant. Intelligence has never been...