Word: keen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...JOHN KEEN defeated David Stanton in a fifty-mile race in Boston, November 10. Stanton was suffering from a severe fall which he received in England, just before leaving for this country, and could not do himself justice. Keen completed the distance in 3 hrs. 10. min. 1 sec. Keen also defeated Terront in a twenty-mile race. Time: 1 hr. 14 min. 31 sec. William Cann completed a little over fifteen miles...
...past and present; keen awakenings...
...every new discovery, whether of science or mechanics, the first query is, "To what can this be applied?" and forthwith keen-sighted men are found straining their vision over the broad field of future possibilities, and those who widen the range of its application often outrank the original discoverer of the art itself...
...Marking System" is what the best authorities have been pleased to call the method of marking now existing at Harvard; but even to the recently initiated this word "system" must seem a keen bit of sarcasm. The great errors and injuries of the present system are so well known that any consideration of them on our part is unnecessary. We trust, however, that we shall not seem too presumptuous if we venture to suggest a remedy. It certainly requires no great ability to compare the results of established systems with the evils of the vacillating method in use here...
Such a one was Jeremiah Smith. He was born the 6th of April, 1841, in the little town of West Hampton, Vt. His father, a farmer, died soon after, leaving his mother, a woman of a keen, though uneducated mind, and his grandfather, a relic of Revolutionary days, as guardians of Jeremiah's early years. History is almost silent about his childhood. We know that he early developed a taste for letters. He learned his alphabet at the age of two, and literally devoured his picture-books...