Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gates of Soldiers Field, creaking through a summers rust, open today to admit an imarient crowd of football enthusiasts. An added week of anticipation together with interesting rumors of a team at practice have whetted a dangerously keen appetite for pigskin...
...canonized by the critics. Last year his Icebound, a genuinely human picture of his native Maine folks, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His place among American dramatists is therefore assured, along with Eugene O'Neill's. I like the plays of Owen Davis. They are keen, humorful, filled with satirical touches and dramatic events. They have a saving touch of laughter when they are most tragic. I sat with him the other day watching a rehearsal of Home Fires, his newest play. Here are plain Americans, behaving as plain Americans do. In this play he has attempted...
...Many keen naturalists believe that the last great enemy of man, barring those released by his own stupidity, will be the insects. Certain it is that the problems of economic entomology and tropical hygiene are understood by all too few, and they chiefly the specialists whose business it is to fight the never-ending pests. A bureau of the U. S. Department of Agriculture devotes its whole time to this important work, and calls upon it this Summer have been particularly pressing...
...fact for the sporting pages. The President is a football expert. Although he was never a player, it is recorded that in the Fall of 1894 (his Senior year), he was "one of the brains" behind the Amherst eleven. It is said that he has ever since retained " a keen and intelligent interest in the game...
Strong evidence is given for the economic argument for migration by the fact that the period of migration is chiefly between November and July, when immigration from abroad is at its lowest. (See page 4.) Then the labor demand in the North is most keen and Negroes are most strongly attracted by good wages...