Word: keening
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...then, the first-string backs can improve this coming week in proportion to the improvement shown last week by the team as a whole, and a well-ordered and sufficiently keen enough eleven is gleaned from the material that is left by a strenuous season. Harvard may face Yale next Saturday on the upgrade...
...rambling interest, of pages of excellent poetry, and of a truly civilized outlook on life. "Fall of visionary ideals, impressed by a certain dogmatic scholarship, and when not riding any one of its literary hobbies, profoundly intellectual," a twentieth century critic described it, it was a fair and keen analysis...
...country needs a man who is industrially clever, a man who has a keen business mind, who can handle problems of the financial world with facility. Herbert Hoover has definitely planned the expenditure of the national income so that it will be of the greatest use to the greatest number of people. He has fought for a balanced budget in order to stabilize the financial standard of the nation. He is the man who has started the nation on the road to economic recovery. Let him finish...
...tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. He panders, indeed, to greedy capital which is keen-sighted and may shift for itself; but he beggars labor which is honest, unsuspecting and too busy with the present to calculate for the future. The prosperity of the working classes lives, moves and has its being in established credit and a steady medium of payment...
...jobs which require keen eyesight the best group was between 30 and 49 years of age. They average 93% as good as the best individuals in Dr. Miles's whole group. The 50 to 69 group averaged 76% as good as the best...