Word: keens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club's members are bringing practical business knowledge to the Law School. "Our purpose," says Leonard A. Weinberger 3L, "is to make a better lawyer through a keen understanding of the securities world, and to make a better investor out of each student...
...call most any member of the faculty and you will find him very keen about Sert," explained Newton...
...dissenters organized just once to give the High Table a keen, if short-lived, ribbing. The Low Table, started and ended on one evening in the thirties, was manned by some twenty-odd gentlemen resplendent in knickers, white tie, top hat, and white beard. The Lows sat just under the dais and taunted the Highs until, coerced, the Highs conceded and invited their bearded caricatures to dinner...
...tiny skull there is room for only a meager brain. Fertility, not intelligence, is the reason for its survival. Its popping, jet-black eyes are all pupil and ought to be sharp at night, but even in daylight they are dim and dull. Only its hearing is keen (its thin ears curl over to keep out insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill, using his strong, ratlike tail and the opposing "thumb...
...large flock of home-town boys headed for Harvard naturally flatters both prides, among other reasons, the admissions office has formed the Schools Committees to spread the Harvard gospel to the best young prospects in two. The system functions quite well in cities where the Clubs keep a keen eye on young prospects. In these places, the undergraduate Schools Committeeman spends vacation days visiting a group of good prospects already chosen by the Club committee, in order to give them a student' eye view of the College, Besides, the undergraduate files a report on each aspirant with the Admissions office...