Word: keener
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...Truth About the Japs," as presented to the American public in the widely read pulp magazines and newspapers of our nation. This quotation happens to come from an article by Ernest O. Hauser in the January issue of LOOK magazine. Claiming that "no one in America has a keener understanding of the Japanese than Mr. Hauser," LOOK proceeds to publish an article which would be labeled "humour" if it were not printed at this particular time. "The Japanese is compelled to go through life without romance--which may be why he lacks imagination and is generally such a dull companion...
...managers] have developed many leisurely customs which are not geared to the current situation. . . . Before we can eliminate this handicap, management and labor must acquire a keener sense of the urgency of the rearmament effort...
...past month, Drs. Harry Reginald DeSilva of Yale and Walter Richard Miles of the National Research Council have tested over 4,000 men for Army truck-driving jobs. After noticing that the Negroes seemed to have a keener night vision, Dr. Miles picked at random seven white and eight Negro soldiers, lined them up in a field on a dark night. Then he walked to a point 100 feet away, held up a stick with a square of white cardboard on each end. The soldiers were asked whether the stick was horizontal or vertical...
...Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson to see how cleanly, how terribly the British & Imperial Army of the Nile, plus the R. N. and the R. A. F., had swept his country's desert fringe clear of Italians. But a man who awaited Graziani's further defeat with even keener relish was Seyyid Idris el Senussi, swart chieftain of the Libyan desert tribes whom Graziani "pacified" in 1930, executing their leaders, reputedly dropping their bodies into their camps from airplanes, then burning the camps and villages, impressing survivors into labor gangs and conscript regiments. Seyyid Idris was one of Commander...
...make even keener...