Word: keener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calvin Coolidge, Owen D. Young, has 1) pushed the passage of laws in eleven States demanding hearing tests for all school children;* 2) campaigned for routine lipreading classes in all public schools, to give confidence to 3,000,000 hard-of-hearing U. S. children whose eyes are keener than their ears...
...Negroes lead all other classes in wanting to fight Hitler, the poor are keener than the rich...
...academic and social heterogeneity. President Conant has said that the most important academic contacts are made over the dinner table, and originally the Plan offered students in all fields such opportunity to mingle and to discuss problems of every nature. This discussion naturally produces sharper minds and a keener interest in problems of a general, rather than of a specific, academic scope...
...weather conditions that have hampered all rowing this spring, Love is not pessimistic. But he does admit that the time trials to date are not as promising as those turned in at the same time last spring. However, he goes on to state that there is a keener spirit of competition between the first and second crews than was evident at any time last year. In fact, it is the second crew's persistence in beating the first boat that has necessitated a continued shifting of men from one boat to another in an attempt to find the fastest combination...
...much-distilled terms, the fond picture projected by the report is of a vastly more vigorous intra-mural sports program. Its scope is grander, the facilities are more equal to the demands, the coaching is better, the spirit of competition is keener, the participation is larger. The elusive fire-fly of "athletics for all" will for once be captured. There will be a decisive de-emphasis of sports if by emphasis is meant playing to win--for the old grads and the Sunday columnists. There will be new emphasis in the sense of athletics for sport and for physical gain...