Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is a keen financier and wary junketeer. Since the adjournment of Congress he has traveled some 12,000 miles, visiting the Canal Zone, and in general "sticking his nose" into Government finances. In Panama he is said to have discovered a $7,000,000 surplus of the canal railroad, Government property, the books of which had never been audited by a Government auditor...
Besides an ability to present a scene, Viscount Bryce has the power of describing people. An unbounded sympathy and a keen sense of humor gave him those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed...
...Yale man has something intangible, though valuable, in common with other Yale men. What this intangible character is would be difficult to say. An inheritance of traditions--more perhaps than any other large university in the country; a personality moulded by four years of the Yale curriculum system; a keen sense of competition; an aristocratic point of view upon a democratic life; and a taking for granted of certain well-established theories of knowledge: gentlemanly conduct and morality. These generalities may or may not help you. As for a picture of these Yale men--they are, on the whole, well...
Approximately 200 athletes from all parts of the east will compete in the open handicap meet under the auspices of the H. A. A. in the Stadium tomorrow afternoon beginning at 3 o'clock. There is a powerful field in every event and some very keen contests will undoubtedly be staged. The popular prices for admission, 50 cents and one dollar, will be maintained, and a large gallery will probably turn out to see the many stars who will compete...
...With the death of William W. Nolen, a personality familiar to a host of Harvard men passes out of college life. Nolen was a member of the class of 1884 and from his undergraduate days took a keen interest in young students. His attempts at academic teaching soon after graduation were not wholly successful, but he soon found himself in an endeavor to give personal help to those who he believed were in danger of failure because the over-burdened college teacher had not time enough to help them...