Word: keening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French Are Keen...
...real contribution to the cause of a just and durable peace. For Mr. Dulles, the Japanese Peace Treaty is the height of a brilliant career, marked by a keen intellect and a deep sense of real moral and spiritual values. His brilliance, his honesty and his understanding of humanity mark him as a giant among a host of midgets in our government...
Tory Burleigh, 46, who described himself in the ad as "reasonably intelligent, tall, healthy and strong," said that he, his wife, son, daughter and grandson are "anxious to live and not exist . . . willing to work, learn and give loyalty . . . possessors of keen sense of humor (at present untaxed)." Burleigh served 5½ years overseas in the British army, came home to find his house blitzed and jobs scarce. "It seemed that in this country I was considered derelict because I was over 40." He went into business for himself, then became a salesman but didn't make it, finally...
More than most men, doctors respect the human body. James Howard Means, Harvard professor of clinical medicine, has so keen a regard for the body's complex hormone-producing system that he urges his fellow doctors to be wary of tampering with it. He is particularly worried by "the present all-prevailing ACTH-cortisone furor...
...course, Harvard has always sought a "Balance in the College" that includes not only top brains but also leaders in a variety of things other than scholarship. But over the last ten years, an especially keen competition has been developing among the Ivy "Big Four" of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, who all essentially want the same kind of "scholar" and especially "scholar-leader" and "scholar-athlete"--and who all have nurtured the same desire...