Word: keener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recession wage increases to unionization." Wages generally go up, even during depressions, in those highly concentrated industries in which a few big companies are dominant. They are better able to maintain profits and to raise wages in recessions than industries made up of many small businesses where competition is keener and profits narrower...
...last week after four years as surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service was Indiana's Dr. Leroy E. Burney, 54, an able administrator but ^ man who made no pretense of being a New Frontiersman. In Burney's office* sat Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, 49, whose keener interest in research and in care for the aged make him more acceptable to the Kennedy Administration...
...Palace. No ordinary woman, Dr. Janet Travell (Wellesley, '22; Cornell University Medical College, '26) is no ordinary physician. From her father, who had pioneered in galvanism-electrical treatment of muscle disorders-she picked up a keener-than-average interest in the human spine and its disks, its nerves and its muscles, and the aches and ills that beset them. Young Dr. Travell turned intensively to the study and treatment of pain-especially musculoskeletal pain. By 1930, her old med school put her on the faculty in the pharmacology division. There, in what is now the "great white palace...
John L. Loeb's gift has already stimulated enormous interest in Harvard theatre. This interest will be reflected in the community's keener appreciation of plays, and in more intense efforts on the part of players...
...child buyer. But Barry himself for three days holds the senators and child buyer at bay, and it is hard to remember that he is still a small boy, tied to his mother. When he loses her support, he has no further reason to resist. The promise of even keener intelligence at last buys the child, like a sort of junior Faust. Barry's curtain speech is memorable and moving: "I was wondering about the Forgetting Chamber. If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything, where would they go? Just out into the air? Into...