Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keenest interest in his departure was felt last week by virile lads in the mid-teens who had just read a newly published book: Walter Garvin In Mexico, A Book For Boys, by Gen. Smedley D. Butler and Lieut. Arthur J. Burks (Dorranee...
Concerning Governor Smith of New York, Mr. White remarked: "There will have to be a change in the attitude toward big business before Al Smith can ever go to Washington. Personally, I con- sider that Al Smith represents the biggest, best, keenest and cleanest brain in American public life to-day-and I am a Republican...
...called to Harvard in 1891 Professor Paul H. Hanus to serve as one of the first university professors of education ever appointed in this country. President Eliot thus initiated the development which has resulted in the establishment of the Graduate School of Education. He has always shown the keenest interest in the growth of the work Harvard has done in the technical training of teachers and superintendents and has never failed to express his belief in the future of that work. The gift of half a million dollars from the General Education Board, which forms the basis of the endowment...
...government documents to 56 countries. The museum has acquired 254,032 new specimens of various sorts. The national gallety received as gifts a considerable number of works of art. The figures are heavy and dull in themselves but behind them is the combined activity of thousands of the keenest mines in the country, experts in science, builders of the future. Their work is a lasting one, a series of great achievements...
...above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play and a fine one, is built around the character of a hale, old country gentleman, boldest horseman, keenest hunter, most ardent lover in the county. A too spirited mare breaks the stalwart frame. His own son, his own young bride break the vigorous spirit. These two move with Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans on his death bed, stubbornly believing himself invincible against the encroachments of time...