Word: keen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Mogk has the first base job, and Walt Scholl and George Polzer are working together at second and short. Bud Finneran and Chuck Bowen are still waging a keen fight for the hot corner post, and the Ithacans have capable reserves for the other infield positions...
...four on the third boat and Benn Riggs who is not rowing this year. In addition to this, there are two sophomores who rowed on the second Freshman boat last year who have turned up in the second shell. This all points to the fact that there is keen competition in the first three boats, especially when men who were on the Jayvees last year are unable to make it this year...
Dictator Benito Mussolini has long fancied himself a student of government. Convinced that parliamentary democracy is an anachronism, Il Duce has pondered the ideal political setup for the economic state of today. Possessed of a keen sense of history and conscious of posterity's verdict, Signor Mussolini has many times predicted that the system of government he was inaugurating in Italy would revolutionize political science and in time be a model for future political organizations. In matters of government, the Italian Dictator is much more of a thinker than his intuitive and more successful colleague, Adolf Hitler. What...
...tutorial. The tutorial staff must correlate the diverse courses which each student takes, must point out to him their relations and their bearing upon his chosen problem. If it fails in this, education becomes even more of a chaos of disconnected subjects. Required are tutors with a broad but keen grasp of the whole area themselves, and these may be difficult if not impossible to find, especially among the younger...
...vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts they can be keen as animals...