Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's raid routine (when the Germans are coming over as they did during the last half of 1940) is stiff as a timetable. The Alert is sounded about at the end of dinner, the All Clear at about dawn. There is another warning by 8 a.m., several more during the morning, one at noon as sure as etiquette (which cheats no Londoner out of his lunch). During the afternoon those who care to may usually witness a "dogfight"; then, from 4 p.m. until dark, it is ordinarily quiet. Each metropolitan dusk, in that suspended silence and foreboding...
Those of us who had hoped that change was possible even at Harvard received a blow between the eyes when we road in yesterday's CRIMSON that our over-alert Student Council, while finding occasion to pass resolutions instructing Faculty men in the conduct of courses, could discover no cause for action in the case of what might seem to the layman a clear mandate, a two-to-one majority demanding a new food policy. Perhaps there are reasons, as yet undisclosed, for maintaining the present system. But since the question was considered fit subject for a poll...
...Always alert for a pat tag from the Bard, a chance to get off a self-deprecatory wisecrack, Britons last week merrily quoted Hamlet to each other, felt an obscure contentment that the most fantastic episode in Britain's greatest war could be cosily tied up with Shakespeare...
...Story in Britain. Harvard's gentle, alert President James Bryant Conant, who tripped to Britain last March for President Roosevelt, told what 19 months of mobilization had done to Britain's universities...
Last week Britain was invaded-fortunately by a British Army. The British War Office, alert for the real thing, ordered large-scale invasion exercises on the east coast north of London...