Word: keener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like acting," declared Robert Morley, winding up a six-month personal triumph in Edward, My Son. "Good actors act to live, they don't live to act. The keener somebody is to act, the worse actor he is. It's not a sacred calling, acting...
...survey predicted keener competition in law, civil engineering, chemistry, and personnel relations...
...away and their hopes fell. During the night, one of the men died. As the sun grew hot again, the sky was empty and silent. Pilot Calhoun, a commander still, allowed each man one sip of water in the first 24 hours. It only seemed to make their thirst keener...
Some economists have said that if this 24 per cent receives higher education, professional people will soon glut the market. This could not hold for the community college. Its graduate would not gain an LLB. or an M.D.; he would receive a B.G.S.; signifying that he had become a keener citizen by two years, a more useful wage earner by two years, a wiser family man by two years. What community or what nation can suffer because it is too alert, too prosperous, too wise...
...hours it needs to present the news with sense-making background. That the news in TIME reaches the reader later than newspapers or radio might bring it is an obvious disadvantage to him. Only if its presentation of news is better than the newspaper reports (i.e., sharper in detail, keener in insight, easier to read, understand and remember), can TIME overcome the disadvantage of being "late." When the advantage outweighs the disadvantage, TIME has a value; when it doesn't, TIME hasn't. That is the challenge that forces TIME'S staff to work under an hour...