Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keen, young (45) Engineer Heller, who showed the U.S. Steel Corp. seven years ago how to modernize its marketing methods, examined every part of the cumbersome Congress mechanism, saw how it worked, and drew his own conclusions. He wrapped up suggestions made in other studies, finally saw his report adopted unanimously by the association's business, labor and agriculture committees. Gist of the recommendations...
...exhausted eyes, his models were a mere blur. To translate forms of muscles and bone, he first had to feel their original conStruction with his hands. He used calipers to measure bare knees or arms, sometimes tore living flesh by clumsy searching for clay perfection. Augmenting a keen sense of touch with the memories of his earlier, visual studies, he continued almost to the last of his 83 years to fashion his distinctively animated dancers and horses. He worked in semisecrecy, in perishable wax and clay, left the figures scattered helter-skelter in his Paris studio...
Formed in January 1941 at Selfridge Field, Mich., the Forty-niners went through the usual training in P-40s, were shipped out less than two months after war began. Under command of young, keen-eyed Major Paul B. Wurtsmith (now a brigadier general in charge of the Fifth Fighter Command), about a year later they landed in Melbourne...
...publishing revival of the early 1920s began with the appearance of the Modern Library and other modestly priced reprints. Today, in addition to the immense success of paperbound reprints, paper rationing has accustomed readers to cheaper books, with thinner paper, smaller type, narrower margins. And keen competition in the cheap-book field has been further assured this year by Multimillionaire Marshall Field's purchase of Simon & Schuster (including a 49% interest in Pocket Books), countered by the purchase of the old reprint house of Grosset & Dunlap by a syndicate composed of Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club...
...than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this was the fault of feuding Cordell Hull, who was not keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department's archaic architectural monstrosity. He created a pretty press room, increased the wattage of lights and removed the desks of messengers from the halls. But Cordell Hull balked at repainting doors in pastel shades...