they exhibit a keen interest in social, political, and economic problems, but they frequently have vague and incorrect notions about the terms they use rather glibly in their routine school work.

Dwight developed a keen and enduring interest in exploring outdoors, hunting / fishing, cooking and card playing from an illiterate named Bob Davis who lived by the river.

Poe had a keen interest in cryptography.

In letters from school he wrote about caterpillars and butterflies, and Buddicom recalls his keen interest in ornithology.

Himmler's diary, which he kept intermittently from age 10, shows that he took a keen interest in current events, dueling, and " the serious discussion of religion and sex ".

Hadrian's military skill is not well attested due to a lack of military action during his reign ; however, his keen interest and knowledge of the army and his demonstrated skill of leadership show possible strategic talent.

From well before his reign, Hadrian displayed a keen interest in architecture, but it seems that his eagerness was not always well received.

He had a keen interest in the arts.

Born into a middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels, he took a keen interest in Scouting in early life, something that would prove highly influential on his later work.

Justinian, who had always had a keen interest in theological matters and actively participated in debates on Christian doctrine, became even more devoted to religion during the later years of his life.

Aluma took a keen interest in trade and other economic matters.

The handbags made of shark skin used to be in vogue but this keen interest has since fallen as the costs of production and of the leather itself are very high.

Lidia Zamenhof in particular took a keen interest in Esperanto, and as an adult became a teacher of the language, traveling through Europe and to America to teach classes in it.

The German Development Bank ( KfW ) has taken a keen interest in Nepal ’ s

Plato had a keen interest in mathematics, and distinguished clearly between arithmetic and calculation.

Foster took a keen interest in the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer and graduated from Manchester in 1961.

Alexander took a keen personal interest in his urban and architectural projects and made notes of these in his diaries.

In this equestrian monument he showed his keen interest in perspective.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

Given the currently keen interest in biotechnology and the high levels of funding in that field, attempts to exploit the replicative ability of existing cells are timely, and may easily lead to significant insights and advances.

King Gustavus Adolphus showed the university a keen interest and increased the professorial chairs from eight to thirteen in 1620, and again to seventeen in 1621.

His interest in golf brought him into intimate contact with one of his biographers Bernard Darwin, who said that Grace played golf " with a mixture of keen seriousness and cheerful noisiness ".

Despite the good intentions and hardwork of its creator ( as well as the keen interest and support from both amateur and professional 2000 AD contributors ), the fanzine's full potential sadly never was realised.

However, Lee showed a keen interest in Wing Chun, and continued to train privately with Yip Man and Wong Shun Leung in 1955.

Dalí also had a keen interest in natural science and mathematics.

His first visit to the Harz awakened in him a keen interest in science ( see Goethes: Wahrheit und Dichtung ).

Neckam also displays a keen interest in contemporary medical science.

He told Peter, who had a keen interest in science, how to catch butterflies and how to preserve them.

Brisbane's keen interest in science led him to accept the invitation to become the first President of the Philosophical Society of Australasia which later became the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned institution in the Southern Hemisphere.

This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and provides the perfect example of Leonardo's keen interest in proportion.

As a patent examiner and patent advocate, Page had developed a keen eye for detecting fraudulent claims about science.

Bill Pickering, keen to support authentic science in his home country, was Patron of New Zealand's only school-based research group, the Nexus Research Group, from 1999 until his death in 2004.

Wild was always keen to pass on his enthusiasm for science.

Accordingly, it is keen to show that modern physical science can and should be given such an interpretation.

One of those particularly keen on exploiting the networks ’ new interest in the genre was producer Glen A. Larson, who created two new science fiction series in quick succession: another television version of Buck Rogers, this time entitled Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ( 1979 – 81 ) and his own original creation Battlestar Galactica ( 1978 – 80 ).

His high school studies in Obernai, from 1950 to 1957, included Latin, Greek, German, and English languages, French literature, and he later became very keen of both philosophy and science, particularly chemistry.

Through his studies, reportage, and his keen interest in human science, he met Albert Hofmann who synthesized LSD.

Many had a keen interest in natural history which was enthusiastically shared by the pupils and led to a serious interest in science at the school which went on to produce a number of distinguished scientists in many areas.

Forbes was keen to see a superior educational institution which would provide an education in the higher branches of science and literature as ' the first step towards the training of a Colonial ministry from among the Colonial youth.

He was sent to King's College, London, where he met Professor V. Fausböll of Copenhagen, who seems to have turned towards Indian studies a mind that had already shown a keen interest in languages and linguistic science.

Furthermore, Abbas had, for many years, been trying to recover the city of Kandahar, which Jahangir was not keen to part with, especially to this king whom he did not particularly care for, despite seeing him as an equal.

Such a challenging enterprise requires keen knowledge of sailing in general as well as maintenance, navigation ( especially celestial navigation ), and often even international diplomacy ( for which an entire set of protocols should be learned and practiced ).

Disney CEO Michael Eisner took an especially keen interest in the development of the new town in the early days, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to " make history " and develop a town worthy of the Disney brand and legacy that extended to Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ( EPCOT ).

Teresa's mother, Beatriz, was especially keen to raise her daughter as a pious Christian.

Birds of prey are birds that hunt for food primarily via flight, using their keen senses, especially vision.

Todd, with his own military record, was a keen supporter of remembrance events especially those associated with the Normandy landings and the Dambusters.

He saw no advantage in a colonial war with the British, especially since he was keen to gain their friendship in case of any future conflict with Germany.

Likewise, the Church was keen to send missionaries to the newly-conquered colonies of the British Empire, especially Africa and India, and to ease the restrictions on its British and Irish adherents.

Sturt was keen to explore the Australian interior, especially its rivers.

During the period of the Reign of Terror, the cap was adopted defensively even by those who might be denounced as moderates or aristocrats and were especially keen to advertise their adherence to the new regime.

While engaged in this campaign Carpenter developed a keen interest in progressive education, especially providing information to young people on the topic of sexual education, and was a good friend of John Haden Badley, the social reformer and educationalist and would regularly visit Bedales School when his nephew Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter was a student there.

His family were keen on sport, football especially, and many of his relatives had played for junior clubs in Cork, including Rockmount A. F. C.

He is a keen follower of sports, especially cricket, football, squash and tennis.

Although both countries remained allies, Geisel was keen to seek alliances and, more importantly, economic opportunities in other parts of the Globe, especially Africa and Asia.

Blackman is a keen Bridge and chess player, and enjoys all food especially curry.

She was especially keen on incentives, one of the chief ones being trips to Florida to the annual ' Jubilee ' at company's sales headquarters for motivational meetings and socializing with other successful representatives.

The latter, understandably close to Avram Iancu ( especially Nicolae Bălcescu, Gheorghe Magheru, Alexandru G. Golescu, and Ion Ghica ) were also keen to inflict a defeat on the Russian armies that had crushed their movement in September 1848.

He was fond of outdoor sports, especially coursing and shooting, and was a keen patron of the fine arts.

The others, especially Boris, were not so keen to rehearse.

Odors, especially Francine's particularly keen sense of smell, play an important role in the film.

One area of capital projects that especially was keen to Gardiner's interest was Metro's expressway program.

Police departments in big cities are especially keen to recruit officers from ethnic minorities to reduce language and cultural barriers.

The degree of his involvement in the events leading up to the outbreak of World War I is a matter of keen debate, with some historians putting the blame for an early and provocative mobilization squarely on Sazonov's shoulders, and others maintaining that his chief preoccupation was " to reduce the temperature of international relations, especially in the Balkans ".

He was also a good botanist and a keen horticulturist ( especially crocuses ).