Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Red Cross drive closed yesterday after collecting $1692.54, $492.54 over the $1200 goal set, John F. Kennedy '40, chairman of the drive, announced last night. "The Committee would like to thank the members of the College for their keen response to the plea of the Red Cross," Kennedy said. "That the quota should have been exceeded by such a large amount is a credit to Harvard and the student body...
...about his heroine, Canada. This sentence is one of the few in his book that will not come as news to a majority of U. S. readers. For Mr. MacCormac, longtime New York Times correspondent in Canada, elsewhere writes neither in such brogue nor in platitudes but with a keen sense of U. S. ignorance about Canada, a brimming ability to fill in that ignorance...
...appetite was good, his taste for game still as keen as when Mrs. Roosevelt said he liked any food "that flies through the kitchen." Sea food was still his favorite dish, terrapin in any form his prime favorite, with a gastronomic nook always reserved for kedgeree, a dish of flaked white fish, rice, hardboiled eggs. He is a cheese connoisseur, but likes ice cream to the point of second helpings. He honestly likes hot dogs. One Scotch highball at teatime is his usual ration, but on a night out he ups that limit: often at banquets the flower vases before...
...keen competition which has marked the training of the single scullers all through the spring will come in a head this afternoon on the Charles. The Harvard Sculling Championships will get under way at 3:00 o'clock to culminate the 1940 season and to determine the ace single rowers of the season...
Captain George Dits 2GB received the Harvard Rugby Trophy donated annually by Maurice Emile and Paul Bothner for having shown outstanding ability team cooperation and a keen interest in the game. The trophy is awarded by the Club to the member of the team who has learned the game in this country...