Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class A Harvard stands fourth and will have to beat out Newton Center. Union Boat Club, and Harvard Club. Harvard Club is the only team ranking higher than Harvard in class B. The Walkover Club, now standing third, promises to furnish keen opposition, however. Harvard stands in the middle of the rank list in class C, in which Harvard Club heads the list with no defeats...
...Keen wit and undeniable ability kept Unser Anton on active service long past the legal age for retirement. Once another Austrian Archduke attempted to suggest that it was time for him to retire...
Harvard's peripatetic Harlow Shapley (TIME, Dec. 2) addressed the American Geographical Society in Manhattan last week. Usually he has his keen intelligence among the stars. For last week's occasion he directed it into the earth. He proposed, as has many another with less public attention, to establish scientific laboratories deep beneath the land surface. The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 ft. deep. The deepest mine in the world is St. John del Rey in the stage of Minas Geraes, Brazil, about 7,200 ft. down, where toiling...
Then at eight o'clock there is a toss up between the Symphony concert in Sanders Theatre and a lecture on "English Schools Old and New" by Mr. Stephen P. Cabot in Phillips Brooks House. The Vagabond admits a keen interest in the British schools which have produced so many centuries of leadership in all the branches of public and private life. So he is faced with a difficult choice between Bach and Schumann or Eton and Winchester...
...Horween switched him to the pivot post however where for two years he has excelled playing along side his brother. It is this back field experience gained at Milton and under Eddie Casey former Freshman coach and now in charge of the backs which has made him such a keen defensive player...