Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby W.C. on some pretext until the appropriate time, all he need do is rush one or two shells tot he trusty longbore, jerk the lanyard, and the destructive deed is done. None of your flimsy cloak-and-dagger time-bomb plots--not on your life. Thanks to the keen vision of our forefathers, Harvard is now in a good position to strike a strong counterblow in its Battle for Survival...
...clear, moonless night, far from any city glare, a keen-eyed observer can see in the sky a faintly glowing cone. This is the "zodiacal light," which astronomers believe is sunlight reflected from dust particles revolving around the sun like microscopic planets. In Sky and Telescope, Astronomer Otto Struve of the University of California tells how he thinks the dust got there...
...Violent. Most Americans know James Thurber for the funny fellow who draws cartoons and who analyzed the daydream of grandeur in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Yet Thurber is only every other inch a comic writer; in between, he is a psychologist as keen as any now writing in the U.S. Like most writers of unusual, not to say violent imagination, Thurber cannot always control it. There are passages in all his fairy tales (especially in The White Deer) so loaded with verbal gems-and costume jewelry too-that they clink...
...seminar, held in Germany this summer, discussed the various phases of modern student life and the problems of youth in today's world. The High Commission has ordered the large-scale printing because of the keen interest shown in the original reports by German university officials and students...
Roosevelt's fellow editor's opinion of him is mixed; except for a die-hard or two, most of them agree that he was a "very good companion . . . with a ready laugh and a keen sense of humor." A number feel that "other men on the board at the time showed greater promise...