Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date, the alert neophyte can learn a little about his environment--if he is skilled at assembling jig-saw puzzles. If he has time for the more thoughtful courses in history, literature, and the fine arts, he will not clude Sam Adams, nor West nor Bullfinch, nor the Mathers, nor Holmes, Thoreau and Emerson. If he leans toward economics, he will learn something about how New England makes its living. He may even get some visual education, as from the field trips which Professor Black promotes to the farms and forests of the region...
...Vanishing Man. The friendly conference, in Baruch's Manhattan office, lasted three hours. On one side were Wallace and his adviser, alert Philip Hauser of the Census Bureau. On the other: Baruch and his associates, ex-Editorialist Herbert Bayard Swope, Banker John Hancock, Wall Streeter Ferd Eberstadt. Wai. lace, it developed, had based his criticism largely on the advice of a friend of his in UNRRA, who was now abroad. Baruch showed him, point by point, where he was wrong. The upshot of the conference: Hauser and Swope would draft a retraction for Wallace to sign...
...publications and on the bulletin boards might help fill the gap. Further, this group might coordinate club meetings and special events, to prevent time conflicts and present to the students a single source of information on club events. Most important, a group of this type would be alert to new suggestions for activities, sensitive to all possibilities of publicizing club affairs, concerned with the necessity of expanding the extracurricular program...
...doctors were on the alert against flu. It had struck promptly after World War I, killing 500,000 in the U.S. within four months, and another postwar epidemic may be due. But there will be no such toll as last time: a new Army-tested vaccine (TIME, April 3, 1944) is now available to civilians...
However liberals may disagree with the long term aims of the Communists, members of the Party have nevertheless for a long time played a very real part in liberal movements. They are traditionally extremely energetic in political action, they are more alert to vital issues on which the average liberal would tend to talk about from the security of his own arm chair. The continued presence of AYD members within the framework of the Liberal Union is more than a case of whether the Liberal Union is to be considered as a genuinely democratic organization. Failure to work alongside...