Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Slattery emphasized the temporary character of the two groups. "The competition is very keen," he said. "In two weeks the whole makeup of the infield may be different. In all the doubtful positions, the men who can hit will get the jobs." The presence of F. S. Hill '24, versatile infield substitute of last year, and J. W. Hammond '25, regular second baseman a season ago, may materially alter the situation. Hill did not appear yesterday and Hammond, reporting for the first time, confined his activities to indoor work...
...peculiar fact that in most contests with Yale and Princeton the participants conduct themselves with all the grim silence of a life and death struggle while the excited spectators shout themselves hoarse. The Triangular debate tonight is a lone exception; and for once the spirit of keen competition and friendly rivalry can be expressed in appropriate words by the contestants themselves. While the audience must perforce wait until the end of the debate to register its complete approval or disapproval, the fact that the discussion centers upon the very vital problem of limitation of enrolment should make the decision fairly...
Mariane and Dorine, Miss Grew and Miss Thayer, were excellent complements, the one an over modest, timid little girl with a tendency to dramatic action and the other keen of wit and ready to plan common-sense solutions...
...with keen pleasure I have read your very frank and friendly letter...
Heinan Described. The German engineer in question is Captain Anton Heinan, who (employed by the U. S. Navy Department) was aboard the Shenandoah on the occasion of its accidental flight. Short, slenderly built, Heinan has a keen and piercing blue eye, an air of imperturbability. Bred in the great German port of Hamburg, he was a seaman before becoming Germany's most noted dirigible pilot. He flew the Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen in south Germany on passenger-carrying service with almost clocklike regularity, claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years...