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...desire to enjoy the blessings of a perfect love was exceeded only by the keenest ambition to become recognized as a great artist. All through her brief career she held these goals before her, willing to sacrifice everything to acquire them. Yet she died at the age of twenty-four, having gone only a short way on her ambitious and difficult journey. Gladstone read her diary and recognized her as "a true genius, one of these abnormal beings who seem to be born into the world once or twice in a generation...
...Transportation. Skeptical about private ownership as he is, nevertheless he told the Boston Chamber of Commerce last fortnight: "It is hard to be cold about the transportation situation today, because it is full of vitality and fascination and in a period of rapid growth and change which excites the keenest interest." For a time, the Commissioner continued, the railroads had shown serious symptoms of "incipient senility." But "the advantage which an industry has over an individual is that it can be born again. That'is what I think is happening to the railroads and I rejoice that...
...from Mr. Lucius N. Littauer for the purpose, the university authorities are going ahead with plans for the new school based on the commission's recommendations, and the country is soon to witness a wholly new "educational adventure." We have no doubt it will watch its progress with the keenest of interest and with every hope of its success...
...Brain Truster Landis was considered to have one of the keenest legal minds in the nation. He helped draw up the Securities Act and the Exchange Control Act and later became chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission. While in Washington he was one of the closest and most trusted of the President's advisers
...large corporations are therefore placed on a highly competitive basis and the Senior who compete for an offer must make fully as aggressive and convincing an approach to the recruiter as he would make to any other employer. In this type of employment a Senior subjects himself to the keenest possible competition and his chances of landing a job are reduced accordingly...