Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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. An on-the-minute incident was arranged by the newly reshuffled Cambridge City Fire Department, who drove a truck to Widener steps to guard against incendiaries...
...through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...
Family and Success. John Bricker's family qualifies him under Rule 4. His wife, who was his college sweetheart, is handsome, alert, good-humored. She dresses smartly without inspiring envy, dabbles at painting and playing the piano, works earnestly as nurse's-aide chairman. Their twelve-year-old son is a personable youngster who yearns to be a trapper...
...rush to buy vitamins does not stop there. There is also a large trade outside the drugstores. War industries with hundreds of thousands of employes do not trust to home cooking to keep their workers healthy and alert. Fearing vitamin deficiencies, they also provide protection from disease and fatigue in vitamin pills, capsules or biscuits to be taken daily...