Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued trend toward the Right and Left was taken in some quarters as an ominous portent for the coming Reichstag election (May 4). Many moderate Germans professed keen alarm over the effect of the Bavarian election in foreign countries...
...College Library received from Sir John Mayhard "eight chests of books valued at 400 pounds". Among these naturally were many duplicates, and the Corporation promptly authorized the sale of "double books". Cotton Mather of the class of 1678, just out of College, keen to gather a collected of books which eventually exceeded in size and importance every other colonial library of the time, purchased 96 of these duplicates. Most of these books remained in the possession of his son, Samuel, and the latter's daughter, Hannah, well into the nineteenth century, when they passed into the possession of the American...
Both the University and Freshman squads are badly in need of more candidates. Approximately 18 men are now practicing daily with the University squad, and as the number of positions on a team is 12, there is not much incentive for keen competition. Only 15 men are out for the Freshman team...
...presence is infinitely preferable to its absence, and improvements can be made any general or particular improvements, so much the better for all concerned. Some of the innovations and special characteristics may succeed, others may fail and be discarded. But in the hands of the men who were eager, keen, and forceful enough to introduce the system into this Division can be left its development...
TARNISH?A keen study of the world, the flesh and the gold digger...