Word: alert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year-Old. Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...
...workout contained no actual scrimmaging, but over an hour was devoted to the Red and Blue demonstration. The secondary was particularly alert and quick to sense the hidden ball and fake plays for which the Pennsylvania attack is famed. The line men too were rarely drawn out of position a fact which shows that the experience gained in two hard contests this fall has not gone for naught. Both team A and team B took part in this session and the seconds were only slightly less effective than the regulars...
...subscribers preserve this copy of TIME. On Election Day, having cast their votes, taken their holiday, dined and turned on their radios, let them use the blanks below for predictions, wagers or alert tabulation. There are 531 electoral votes. It takes 266 to elect...
...against U. S. occupation (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and is still successfully defying capture by U. S. marines. Since Sandino depends wholly upon his fellow-countrymen for contributions to support his army, the news that he is cutting off the hands that feed him is peculiarly challenging to alert belief...
Exposure. The alert Kansas City Star, the Universal Service (Hearst), and the arch-Democratic New York World were on the job. On Oct. 14. the World said that, with Senator Walsh's assistance, it was going to expose "another oil scandal." On Oct. 15. the World and Senator Walsh began telling the story of the Salt Creek lease and its renewal. On Oct. 16, the World continued the story. That afternoon. Attorney General Sargent signed and issued an opinion holding the Salt Creek lease void in the first instance and its renewal void as a result...