Word: keen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hounds (Afghans, basset hounds, beagles, dachshunds, foxhounds, etc.). Ch. White Rose of Boveway. a sleek greyhound belonging to Harry Twyford Peters, chairman of the show, last year reached the finals. But so keen was the competition among hounds last week, that Judge Joseph Z. Batten passed her over, picked a stubby beagle as best, a stubby dachshund as next best. He waved the dogs to winners stalls; the crowd clapped; friends congratulated the beagle's owner. Then Judge Batten thought better, put first the dachshund, Ch. Fox von Teckelhof, owned by Hugh O'Neill of Joplin...
...past record, both Harvard and Dartmouth will probably be rated as favorites over the Blue and White. However, the chances are that both tilts will be close with the Crimson and the Indians faced with a fast, shifty, tireless five that thrives on keen competition and loves flashy play...
Herndon himself was well-read, a student of Darwin and Feuerbach, an admirer of Whitman, a man of the world in his understanding of men. He could turn out gnarled sentences as strong as Whitman's: "The great, keen, shrewd, boring, patient, philosophic, critical and remorselessly searching world will find out all things, and bring them to light," he wrote. "I know Lincoln better than I know myself. He was so good and so odd a man, how in the hell could I help study...
Speaking last night at the Faneuil Hall exercises to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Massachusett's constitutional ratification, George H. Earle '11, Governor of Pennsylvania, New Dealer, and keen presidential aspirant, disclaimed that he had a desire to be the 1940 Democratic nominee...
...announcing the award, the company specified a keen interest, since they manufacture an electric freezer guaranteed to produce as fast as ice-cream contestants can consume...