Word: keener
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three new Freshman club crews were formed yesterday afternoon at a meeting of all men from 1922 who had been rowing on eights lower than the third. The change from four to three club crews was made in order to promote keener competition and further shifts will be made from time to time before the regatta to make the crews as closely matched as possible...
Curiosity about next year's presidential nominations grows keener as time goes on, though the situation does not clear up yet. This, offers excellent opportunity for the guessers and prognosticators. The New York Herald has a despatch from Washington which says that ex-Secretary McAdoo's aspirations for the Democratic nomination are now taken for granted. It adds that they are based on the assumption that President Wilson had definitely decided not to be a candidate for renomination, and will devote the rest of his life to leadership of the League of Nations and to literary pursuits. This attractive future...
...College hockey," said Gross, "means much keener competition than you will find at any preparatory school. This year the Freshman team will have remarkably good material and every position will be filled by a man who has worked hard for it. In this competition, physical condition will be almost as important as natural playing ability." He then went on to give the details of training and advice to the candidates in regard to their equipment...
...football, on the other hand, if three or four good men get laid up in practice or in a game, the small college team is severely crippled, while the big college, with many more candidates to choose from and much keener competition for places on the team, can always put in a substitute who is nearly as capable as the regular whose place he takes. Even if the small college players are not injured, they are pretty well exhausted by the time the last quarter comes around and several fresh substitutes are often enough to batter their defence...
...organized labor movement in this country, and I believe that movement will find a sincerer friend in Hughes than in Wilson. I am in sympathy with the German-American citizens of this country, and I believe that in dealing with them Hughes will show greater political sagacity and a keener sense of historical values than has the Anglophile author of the "History of the American People...