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Word: alertes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alcohol and drugs on mental efficiency are being computed in another section of the Fatigue Laboratory. Several of the drugs, incidentally, have been found stimulating; not so, the alcohol. A two hour stint at an instrument called the targetometer is guaranteed to produce mental fatigue in even the most alert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fatigue Lab Scientists Drop Mercury to 40 Below Zero To Test Effects of Arctic on Army Men and Equipment | 2/2/1945 | See Source »

...next alert you get is likely to be the McCoy. ... It might knock out a high building or two. It might create a fire hazard. It would certainly cause casualties ... It could not seriously affect the progress of the war. But think what it would mean to Dr. Goebbels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Warning | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

Except for a rally late in the second half, the Crimson put in a lack-lustre performance last Wednesday night in losing 53 to 45 to an alert Worcester quintet in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Seeks Initial Win Tonight at M.I.T. | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

Most of his Cabinet resigned while U.S. troops in the heavily fortified Canal Zone were just beginning to hear the echoes of Panama's political fight. Nearly half of the Assemblymen fled to the Tivoli Hotel in the Canal Zone. U.S. Army headquarters announced a "full alert," watched and listened for developments. But none supposed that they would be anything except spectators at another tour de force in Central American politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Fight Near a Fortress | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...friendly, an expert hunter and fisherman, he won and returned the love of his people. As his work in the state prison had given him compassion and insight, so his life in the north added toughness to his body and fiber to a character already intelligent and alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop and the Quisling | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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