Word: keen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship for the U. S. In a little studio on Washington Square near the house of his host, Writer Jay Allen, he has lately been doing his first painting in two years. A small, sombre, keen-witted man in casual brown clothes, 43-year-old Artist Quintanilla had it in mind last week to quit painting again, go back to help his friends in Spain...
With just one week of practice remaining before the game with Cambridge University on Saturday, March 26th, the Harvard Rugby team is rounding into top form. Regular scrimmages were held on Monday, Tuesday and Friday of this week, and the team showed great improvement. Competition is keen, and the full-time practice game scheduled for this afternoon is expected to be a close, exciting struggle...
Coach Tom Bolles' Varsity crew season is definitely promising with more than three full crews of good material on the river now. Rivalry will be keen for all but a few positions and Bolles expects to have a hard time deciding which among so many excellent oarsmen finally go into the first boat. At present nothing is definite, for the line-ups yesterday were much different from the ones of Tuesday and Bolles plans to continue trying the first three boat loads in all possible combinations...
...possible therefore to generalize about West Point. For instance good health, high mental capacity and moral endurance are universal among the cadets. The general air of enthusiasm so noticeable at games is really Western in attitude-they are religiously keen about the corps and all its activities. Similarly the joy afforded by a soda or a movie seems naive to us but such judgement is done on a purely comparative basis...
...school-boy, reading of him, is likely to imagine him a great brute of a man, whereas he was really slight, with thin lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...