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Word: keen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noted with keen interest your item in the Press section of the Feb. 17 issue-"Often sued for libel, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has never sued in return." Is there not an error here? In 1911 Hearst filed a $500,000 libel suit against Collier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Above medium height, his keen grey eyes playing carelessly about the room, Wild gave the impression of tremendous vitality, held in check only by a correspondingly powerful calmness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER CRIME REPORTER, PAL OF GANGSTERS, IN HAA OFFICE | 2/18/1941 | See Source »

...standards, it was hailed in Argentina as one of the best Latin films to date. Petróleo's villain is a suave Yankee imperialist (Sebastian Chiola) who turns up in Argentina, tries to do the natives out of their oil wells. Thanks to the keen eyes of an Argentine oilman's daughter (blonde, beautiful Luisita Vehil), Latin virtue triumphs over Yankee greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Latin Uproar | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Sophomore members of the basketball elite comprise practically all of last year's Freshman team. Such keen-eyed sharpshooters as Charley Royer, Jack Clarke, Al Reade, Art Scully, and lanky Larry Hall round out a well balanced squad...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowes, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/4/1941 | See Source »

Last week other young U. S. citizens joined the Army by the thousand. Of those who were drafted, some were keen to go, some were reluctant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecution of the Rich | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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