Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commissioned officer who for the past fortnight has been drilling 30 recruits in a small wood on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, noticed a number of baboons, perched in trees, that seemed to be taking the keenest interest...
Doggedly Eden & Laval kept on asking if Mussolini would not retreat from his position of demanding Ethiopia for Italy, agree to formation of a joint Italo-Anglo-Franco Exploitation Company "for opening up Ethiopia," and promise to keep out of that part of Ethiopia in which Britain has keenest interest, Lake Tana which feeds the Blue Nile. This proposition they made conditional on the unlikely fluke that it would be accepted by both the Emperor of Ethiopia and the League of Nations. It must also be accompanied, stipulated Captain Eden and Premier Laval, by a declaration that "the independence...
...Germany last week the individual manufacturer or industrialist was forbidden to divulge how much he has been called on to contribute, forbidden to find out how much his keenest competitor is being assessed. Menaced with fresh Nazi warnings that there must be no grumbling, German industrialists big and small were paying up, but their disgruntlement was such that it could not be concealed. Privately they tipped off foreign correspondents that Economic Tsar Schacht's assessments are, in nearly all cases, heavy enough to absorb the harassed manufacturers' 1934 profits, and in many cases so heavy as to turn...
What the experimenters saw take place dumbfounded and delighted them. Dr. Lindbergh hastened to write a detailed description of the apparatus for the Rockefeller Institute's abstruse Journal of Experimental Medicine. It will appear later this year. Dr. Carrel, who says Assistant Lindbergh has "one of the keenest and most intuitive and inventive minds possible to imagine,'' wanted to tell the world of science the all important things they had done. Last week Science printed their joint report?one of the clearest papers to come out of the Rockefeller Institute in all its 32 years of existence...
...Crossing Harvard Square should be one of the keenest delights of the clear-eyed Harvard man. Let trembling bookworms and palpitating professors trundle a block out of Harvard Square before trusting their frail bodies to the metal maelstrom, but as for us, the vast majority, let us still enjoy the thrills of brushing a fleeting fender with our coat tails in this pedestrian's paradise. May all schoolgirlish reference to those terrifying automobiles in Harvard Square be dropped forever from the masculine columns of the CRIMSON. F. M. Rivinus...