Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian-made munitions. The Red Sea is only 100 miles wide at Hodeida, and on the other side lies only partially pacified Italian Eritrea. Blushing at having backed the wrong horse, Italy dispatched the destroyer Turbine. France, too, was on the defensive, fearful lest the exploits of Ibn Saud, keenest sword of Allah, put wayward ideas in the heads of her Mohammedan tribes...
...inflated profits of private armament firms exist only in the imaginations of ill-advised critics. The Vickers group has no part in any international armaments ring. On the contrary there is the keenest competition to secure orders from any country which is strengthening its defenses and has not the necessary manufacturing resources available. . . . Munitions manufacturers should rather be considered as rendering a patriotic service so long as our products are necessary for the defense of the Empire...
Competition is expected to be the keenest in the 145 pound, 155-pound, and 165-pound classes, where the majority of the men are entered. Last year the small number of entrants made it necessary to call off the bouts in three of the eight divisions. Edwin C. Ihrig 2L, former Princeton star who won the 135-pound championship last winter, will defend his title...
...decided fortnight ago that the Party is not Monarchist (TIME, Jan. 29). Hastily Author GÖring changed the title of his book from I Am a Monarchist to The Building of a Nation. Even then its publication was delayed last week by General GÖring's keenest rival, that club-footed imp of spite Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the No. 3 Nazi...
Inaugurating the winter track season, Harvard will enter a team in the Prout Memorial Knights of Columbus track meet, to be held tomorrow night at the Boston Garden. One of the keenest events of the evening will be the mile relay classic between Harvard and Holy Cross, with the Crimson slightly favored to repeat last year's victory. Howard S. Derrickson '36, John Dorman '36, John B. White '34, and Captain John M. Morse '34 will make up the Crimson quartet. Coach Farrell is also entering a team in the Intercollegiate Team B mile relay race...