Word: alert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he can execute any task assigned to him in the briefest time possible. . . . Military bearing and neatness are extremely significant. Nothing can more quickly destroy an officer's influence and efficiency than untidy habits of dress or deportment. The chaplain's bearing should be smart and alert, his address prompt and to the point... .Some officers, and unfortunately some of them were chaplains, have spoiled otherwise spotless records by saying or doing tactless things. ... It goes without saying that a chaplain should be possessed of personal integrity and exemplary habits, and should be a man of religious...
...Smart, alert, pious, neat, athletic, Father Will is also sandy-haired, looks like a Texas ranger. He was born in Wooster, Ohio, studied at a seminary run by Fathers of the Precious Blood, was ordained in 1908 and given a parish in Fort Wayne, Ind., still his home diocese. For a time Father Arnold had the odd task of acting as chaplain for Catholics in the Wallace Circus, in winter quarters at Peru. Ind. In 1913, he applied to the chaplain bishop of his church for an appointment as army chaplain. He was going to try it only...
Senator Lewis's bill has little chance of passage by the present Congress, conditions being so tumultuous. Nonetheless the A. M. A.'s alert officers last week immediately denounced their bogeyman's motion. Spoke up Secretary Olin West: ". . . The Lewis measure appears opposed to every policy that the organized medical profession has stood...
Almost as inappropriate as the hall's equipment in the alert eyes of the deaf-mutes, was the message from President Roosevelt read off to them on his nimble fingers by the N. A. D.'s dapper President Marcus Levi Kenner of Manhattan. Deaf-mutes applaud by waving their hands in the air, but the President's hope "that the present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf...
Last week a onetime president of the Chicago Dental Society, alert & articulate Dr. Edward James Ryan, offered Hamilton and the children who were burned beyond recognition by the New London, Texas school explosion as cogent reasons for adding charts of every U. S. mouth to the Department of Justice's files. Such charts might valuably supplement the Department's four means of identifying criminals, prove even more useful as a means of identifying unknown corpses...