Word: keens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However much the swaggering Reed may have impressed Copeland, his poetry is only an expression of a somewhat sentimental and romantic college youth, with no lasting literary merit. His college prose was somewhat better, and several of his Lampoon articles showed a keen sense of satire. His short stories in the Harvard Monthly
Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 70, Archbishop of Palermo, is noted for keen interest in science, inexperience in politics, and personal courage. Once when the famed Sicilian bandit Giuliano was terrorizing the countryside near Palermo, Ruffini walked out alone into the hills and cried: "Giuliano, I am your archbishop and I forbid you to kill...
Plan Ahead. The one common denominator that sociologists, psychiatrists, gerontologists and geriatricians see in all the actively productive oldsters of this or any other time in history is a keen continuing interest in some activity, which carries with it a revitalizing sense of participation in life. This may be, Sloan fashion, a continuation of earlier activity, but with a switch from administration to policy, or a new career in public service. It may be that a former avocation can be turned into a vocation. But "make-work" hobbies will not do. The oldster, like the human being...
...Dove is much too keen To let a single bird be seen; To show the pigeons would not do And so he simply paints...
Harvard, MIT, and Princeton all held the lead at various times until the last race. Rodriguez called the regatta, which was marked by keen competition between these three schools, "the most thrilling in my last two or three years...