Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearances had no place in 64-year-old Security Planner Sir William Henry Beveridge's blueprint for "the ideal wife." Said the groom of three months: "She should be intelligent without being intellectual, keen without being earnest, silent without being stupid...
Despite the one-sidedness of the score, the Crimson did not put on a satisfactory showing. Midyear exams have dulled the keen passing edge of last December, and the covering in front of the Crimson goal, when need of such arose, usually was nothing short of disgraceful...
...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...Arthur Holly Compton (1927), keen, handsome successor to Millikan at the University of Chicago, who first showed experimentally that light is composed of discrete particles as well as waves; better known now for his study of cosmic rays...
Father Ledochowski's successors must go far to surpass him. In the 27 years of his rule the number of Jesuits rose from 17,000 to 27,000, passed for the first time the high mark before the Jesuit suppression of 1773. Wiry, keen-eyed Father Ledochowski started missions among the Eastern Orthodox, fought attacks on his order in Spain, Germany, Mexico and elsewhere. Despite threats from Germany and Italy, a Jesuit on his staff regularly disclosed Nazi atrocities in Europe over the Vatican radio...