Word: keeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is so much that is good about the intense activities of the football field that the unfortunate and sometimes really sad events which result from this greatest of American games cut into the consciousness with especial keeness. The highly satisfactory performance of the football team last Saturday serves only to put a sharper edge to the regret that one of the outstanding members of that team should have met with grave injury while on the field...
...holding hearings on a bill to abolish capital punishment in that little rectangle of land set apart for the business of governing the nation. A witness appeared to be questioned. He wore baggy clothes, was weary looking. A cigaret drooped from his mouth. But his eyes focused with keeness and understanding on the members of the committee...
Against Williams, in their opening game two weeks ago, the Tigers showed a keeness of attack that enabled them to roll up a total of 12 points, while the Purple failed to direct one successful shot into the tiger's cage...
...addition to the regular team trials a tournament is being organzed from which the ten ranking players will be debarred. The purpose of this ruling is to encourage the participation of everyone interested in tennis at the Business School who might otherwise be discourage by the keeness of the competition. Moreover this arrangement will allow the members of the tentative squad to begin their regular practice as a team, E. T. Herndon 1G.B., F. McG. Bundy 1G.B., and Jesse Robinson 2G.B., who have represented Princeton, Yale and the University respectively during the past few years, have been playing all winter...