Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, the Bursar's Office was temporarily installed in the Varsity Club, having just previously been burned out of its location in Dane Hall (where Lehman now stands). The thieves broke in on a Monday night, and four days later an alert CRIMSON legman reported the incident...
Abraham & Straus put the ripper on the market in the metropolitan area and, at their invitation, Mrs. Lawrence came to New York City a few weeks ago to demonstrate her invention. She is an alert, attractive, grey-haired grandmother who shoots golf in the 80s and sings in her church choir. A native of Hartwell, Mo. she went to school and to business college in Fort Scott, Kans., attended a dressmaking school in Chicago, and was married in 1916. Her only child, a daughter, is married and has three children...
...General MacDermott, one of the most sinister characters ever to wear a U.S. uniform. In one scene, MacDermott is seen sitting in a booty-bulging castle, listening to stock exchange quotations, while his wife has her portrait painted. Upon hearing that timber prices are rising in England, the alert army wife gives the general a shrewd tip: "Have the Germans chop down their forests around the city and ship the wood to be sold in England. What have you been appointed a general for if you can't make...
...They change their frequencies suddenly and often, instructing the Russian listeners to "search all short-wave bands." This keeps the jammers on the jump. It takes them about twelve seconds on the average to find and jam a dodging program. In the unjammed interval, an alert Russian listener may sometimes pick up a tidbit of news...
...alert defense held the Eli squad to one point in the second half of the game at Soldiers Field, enabling high scorers Ned Yost, Bob Baldwinfi and Dunc McCallum to close the score...