Word: keen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marksmanship on both sides must have been keen. Percentage of hits to tries in battle averages 2%. At Jutland, where the firing was tops, the Germans got 1.5%, the British 2.6%. Here the average may well have been 2% in the first phases. Spee suffered two especially bad hits-which must have been 256-pound shells from Exeter, since they both pierced heavy armament. One of them, high on the port quarter detonating a split second after getting inside, ripped gaping holes in side and deck. The other probably decided the battle. It pocked Spee's control tower fair...
...Harvard, he will offer to assist the University Committee on Broadcasting and the Radio Workshop, he says. "I am keen to meet the Workshop boys. I think it very significant that they are seeing radio as an effective educational technique, and that they are building their programs around a thing of such contemporary importance as American history...
...average person "BAND" simply means a group of musicians who play together, but to one who has a keen sense of appreciation for music, the dance band has a distinct unity...
...House tournament will be staged in the latter part of January, while the University Tournament will be held in the Indoor Athletic Building's gymnasium during the last week in March. Last year's tourneys brought out a good deal of keen competition and rivalry...
Three of the backfield performers and four of the linemen are Seniors; the other four first team choices are Juniors. Nick Drahos and Walt Matuszezak of Cornell, both Juniors, were outstanding in their respective positions, but elsewhere there was keen competition in a year which saw the Ivy League produce some real gridiron talent...