Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-aircraft base in China has a monkey named Taps who can tell the difference between the engines of U.S. and Jap planes; he gives the alarm by chattering and rattling his chain, then takes cover, invariably beating the official alert...
...Harvard Glee Club's final Yard Concert of the year was the only casualty as the University experienced a surprise air raid alert last night...
Aldrich Durant, chief of Harvard's ARP, announced that the alert went off "as well as could be expected," considering the surprise nature of the alarm. All Cambridge personnel cooperated with a minimum of hitches. Since the time of the test raid was unknown, no "incidents" were planned...
Last night's interruption was the second time that the Glee Club was prevented from giving its traditional Yard Concert. Last Tuesday rain cancelled the first of the two scheduled performances. Yesterday the singers got through the National Anthem and about a third of the scheduled program when the alert was sounded. The Gleemen were back after the all clear, though, and completed the program...
Last night's interruption was the second time that the Glee Club was prevented from giving its traditional Yard Concert. Last Tuesday rain cancelled the first of the two scheduled performances. Yesterday the singers got through the National Anthem and about a third of the scheduled program when the alert was sounded...