Word: keens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keen Smell. To find the products that General Foods should sell, the company runs the biggest private food-research laboratory in the U.S. on a 55-acre site at Tarrytown, N.Y., also keeps 155 women busy in a mammoth test kitchen in suburban White Plains. The kitchens are run by Vice President Ellen-Ann Dunham, a bright and forceful woman of 47, who likes to cook from scratch. Both lab and kitchen are filled with people who have been selected for their keen sense of taste and smell, and-more important-their ability to describe differences...
...scholarship will be granted to that senior "who in the opinion of the Selection Committee shall have attained the esteem of the Faculty and her fellow students for character, creativeness, achievement, and for keen awareness of humanity...
...Chinese troops camped arrogantly on the bleak slopes of Indian Kashmir, all India suddenly became aware that Red China was not simply guilty of "overenthusiastic pursuit of Tibetan refugees" (as one Indian official had first surmised), but was embarked on a systematic quarrel with India, and not particularly keen for negotiation. The prospect loomed that Red China wanted a test of strength with its No. 1 rival in Asia...
Over and above its stable of keen financial brains, the bank has one great advantage over almost all others. Through its long history, it established, financed or otherwise contributed to the success of dozens of U.S. corporate giants. Having benefited from the financial brains of the bank, many a corporation would think of going nowhere else. Said one loyal customer: "Memories are long in the banking world...
...circuit (alternating terms of study and work) by night clerking and bus building, went on to Harvard Medical School and a career in public health. Dr. Dixon did a notable seven-year job as Philadelphia's commissioner of public health, became known as an able administrator with a keen sense of politics. At Antioch, which has some reputation for progressive preciousness as well as for successful schooling, Dixon announced that he aims to "invade the frontiers of the status...