Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitting Reason. In Detroit, Willis Walton, stopped by an alert store owner, explained how he happened to have eight pairs of pants wrapped around his waist under his coat: "I needed a pair . . . and wanted to be sure to get the right size...
...Minneapolis audience welcomed the piece wholeheartedly, from the poignantly elegiac first movement to the brilliant and stirring folk dance at the end. Wrote Tribune Critic Norman Houk: "The Bartok concerto was a major success ... It was given an alert, keyed-up performance by a soloist, orchestra and conductor who had been working on the complex score for a strenuous week . . . A permanent and important addition to the viola repertory...
...freshmen didn't outclass the Terriers, but they played a much cooler and more alert game as a team. Except for poor coverage on rebounds from the offensive board, Floyd Wilson's Yard- ling's usually got the jump on a loose ball...
...Harvard men? These guys are pretty sharp and we feel the competition in class," John P. McCormally, writer on the Emporia Gazette, remarked. "They're more mentally alert than most students I've met; I suppose the intellectual atmosphere here creates a better student body," adds William M. Stucky, city editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Leader...
Emmanuel Margolis, teaching fellow in Government and chairman of the Rally Committee, claims the rally is "an attempt to alert the campus to the real meaning of such incidents...