Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps in 1937 Buzz studied aeronautical engineering three years at the University of Pittsburgh, where he "failed to flash any scholastic lights." But he learned about airplanes and airplane engines as few pursuit pilots ever do. From what he learned in the acid test of battle, Buzz Wagner had keen ideas about improving U.S. planes. "Engineering is my profession," he used to say proudly...
Admiral King's account seemed to confirm the impression that the Navy had underestimated the requirements of the Solomons campaign (TIME, Oct. 26), and that in this instance the U.S. command's insight into Japanese thinking and strategy had been none too keen. But his recital took nothing from the luster of the Navy-Marine-Army team's recent successes in clearing the Solomons waters of Jap ships and extending the land forces' hold on Guadalcanal...
...have noted with keen interest your article relating to Eddie Rickenbacker in the Nov. 2 issue of TIME. Eddie was here in June and received an honorary doctor of science degree and was our guest during that time...
...there was a sobering sense of the tasks still to be done-hard and painful and bloody. If anyone did not know this, he was given a jolting reminder by the wiry, keen commander of U.S. Ground Forces. Said Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair in a broadcast to all U.S. troops...
Said small, keen Lieut. General Lesley...