Word: keenest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American Conference now in session at Santiago de Chile. Secretary of State Hughes, in a message to the Conference, made a plea for a better understanding between nations, the removal of suspicion, distrust and hatred. Every chancellery in Europe it watching the deliberations at the Chilean capital with the keenest interest, with curiosity, with envy, with hatred. Opinion is graduated: there are expressions of genuine goodwill; of mathematical what-will-it-all-come-to. Some see in the Conference the rich New World pitting itself against the war-ruined Old World; others view an American League of Nations in direct...
...tests in the army, has enabled examiners to reach any decision they wished, extremely positive or extremely negative. The most amusing results have been reached and varying doctrines have been propounded. But according to Professor Langfeld some measurement of intelligence is reaily important, and certainly most alluring. Even our keenest psychologists, equipped with all modern conveniences, have failed to devise a universal test, and the older philosophers went hopelessly astray...
...Life is a tool, to handle as we will," declared Dean C. R. Brown, D. D., of Yale, in a talk to 200 Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "Here is a knife of keenest tempered steel. In the hands of the surgeon it is a means of saving life; in the hands of the assassin it becomes a fatal weapon. The tool itself is useless, it is the guiding intelligence behind it that counts. So it is with our lives...
...between the Sophomore A and B class crews. This was the first formal brush this fall, and both sets of oarsmen showed plainly the effects of early-season racing. Crew A won the verdict by a clean length, but B was always close enough to make competition of the keenest throughout...
...that the rest of the number is mediocre. The book reviews are among the keenest that have been seen in any undergraduate publication for a long time. If O. F. L. is Mr. La Farge, it must be said that his story called "Tehan" is about five times as lively as his disquisition on track athletics. "Tehan" is romantic without being sappy, and Mr. La Farge has a style of his own without being mannered. Mr. Brady's Union prize essay reads, to be sure, rather like a prize essay, but it is an excellent one at that...