Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the public's first look at the biggest and keenest mechanical brain in the world, a total of 6.000 persons one day last week trooped down into a basement of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia. There they found a new differential analyzer even more formidable than its name-a maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly purr. On the "answer...
PERMANENCE AND CHANGE-Kenneth Burke- New Republic Inc. ($1). "An anatomy of purpose" by one of the keenest of the younger U. S. philosophers...
Theory of those sponsoring the device is that temperature governs the rate at which organic substances deposited on the ground disperse as scent particles. If the ground is too cold, the rate is too slow for the keenest nose; if too warm, the scent is soon all gone. Best condition for a detectable but lingering scent seemed to be moderately warm soil with slightly cooler air above...
Coach Dietz, one of the keenest minds in the gridiron game, is firmly convinced that in the ambitious, rugged athletes from the smaller, lesser known colleges the best material for crack professional aggregations is to be found, and the shining example of Cliff Battles backs up his contention. Consequently, the Redskins mentor has made use of his wide acquaintance among the coaches of the country and brought under his wing some two dozen potentially great football players who are eagerly at work at Wayland. The aggressive spirit and enthusiasm of the squad angers well for its success this season under...
...Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy-set George Killius, known as one of the keenest buyers in the trade. In the largest collection of new furniture under one roof in the world they, and some 6,000 other buyers, joked and jostled over Mickey Mouse chairs, Biedermeier boudoirs, imitation Louis beds, functional sofas, juvenile hat racks, free wheeling beer carts...