Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...food crisis, the louder the execrations against the Jew, who, poor devil, is quite as badly hit as any one else; perhaps even worse; for the Jew preponderates in the professional classes here and it is the lawyer, the doctor and especially the journalist who are having the keenest struggle to keep alive...
France was at loggerheads with the Chinese Government over the latter's inability to make gold payments in accordance with the Boxer* indemnity. This state of affairs has caused the keenest concern to the other Powers interested in China, as they would have to join France in order to safeguard their protocol rights, or risk losing these rights by adhering to the Chinese Policies Treaty, one of the Washington treaties as yet unratified by France...
scope for trade which must be found to absorb the exports of Germany, represented by her reparations, if you can get them, which absorption alone will enable reparations to be paid without bringing us face to face with some of the keenest competition which we shall ever have suffered...
Query by a physicist: "Is a man of science obligated to make primer copy out of phenomena that are understood by only a very few of the world's keenest brains after a lifetime of study? There is small doubt where the majority of scientists would stand if this question were put to a vote...
...always have in the theatre that feeling of just waking up from a nightmare, with all the thrill of emotional participation and none of the consequent hazards. You can get the keenest satisfaction out of a mild taxicab flirtation in Anything Might Happen, with no anticipatory tremors at sound of the clicking meter. You can share the Parisian amours of the charming wife and somewhat less charming husband in The Love Habit with no fear for your ultimate respectability. You can listen to the sweet mutual nothings of Romeo and Juliet, and your amorous envy will be allayed by prescience...