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Word: keenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should have planned for this 40 years age," Metcalf said at its completion. Keen competition between libraries with each trying to build up its own collection has resulted in duplication that was in many cases "just plain silly" he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6 Universities Map Storage Library; Metcalf Heads Planning Committee | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

...should have planned for this 40 years ago," Metcalf said at its completion. Keen competition between libraries with each trying to build up its own collection has resulted in duplication that was in many cases "just plain silly," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6 Universities Map Storage Library; Metcalf Heads Planning Committee | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...those of us who have lived most of this period, but been too close to it to see the meaning of history in perspective, this is a keen and fair analysis of our world during the past 50 years that should be required reading for all who would appreciate these times in which we live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...brusquely of an early suggestion that the play be put on by Theatre Incorporated, a non-profit group which sent him handsome royalties in 1946 from its hit revival of Pygmalion. "I take no interest in nonprofit enterprises," he wrote. "I am in business and prefer to deal with keen business managers who are out to make as much money as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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