Word: keen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Collier's Weekly. Of these the suggestion of Mr. Sullivan's career--the great national weekly built on the early knowledge of a small Pennsylvania town, is easily the most interesting. The equally interesting work of Mr. Sedgwick in editing the Atlantic has not received quite the same keen weighing...
...distinguished author, a keen critic of public life and a leading psychologist, his loss, too great to be realized when civilization is in a turmoil, will be estimated fairly in the future, when judgment is less biased by partisan feeling...
...special car of the University Club on one of the trains for New Haven Saturday. He was born in Boston 41 years ago and entered the University in 1893 graduating with the degree of A. B. After graduating he spent one year in the Law School. A keen interest in old books prompted him to give up law and go abroad, returning later to become librarian of the University Club. As the holder of this position up to his death he made frequent research excursions in Europe, particularly in Spain, where he worked extensively in 1913. The ballad department...
...twentieth century is characterized by world-wide competition in trade and commerce. Why has England been at war with Germany? Is it not for commercial supremacy? At the termination of the war, I venture to predict that the competition in the world maker will be felt more and more keen, not between England and Germany but between American and the victorious party. Also I venture to predict that the busy market will be found in China, whose untold resource have long surprised the whole world...
Cambridge is singularly rich in places of historical traditions, and it is a great pity that the imagination of the undergraduate is so apathetic in regard to them. Day after day he passes scenes famous throughout America, but his careless glance shows none of that keen interest which merely a slight acquaintance with their great historical associations would arouse...