Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attenshun! In Chicago, Dr. Charles W. Goff, member of the Posture Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, had a cheering word for stoop-shouldered men: a slight slouch and protruding rump, he said, is healthy, conserves energy, and keeps the sloucher alert...
Charles Wesley Plaisted turned out to be an alert, laconic, genial gentleman who has no idea how he got to be 100 years old. Nor does he attribute his longevity to anything whatsoever. "If you stay well, you don't make any count of the years," he said. "I don't feel any different than I ever did, although I'm not so strong...
...military aviation, McFarland found, accidents decline up through the 30-34 age group; then there is a slight increase, and finally a better record after 40. In general, "increasing experience makes the pilot safer"; a 50-year-old pilot who is mentally and physically alert is "much safer" than a younger pilot of less intelligence and poorer coordination. Among transport pilots, lowest records for accidents were among the under-30 group; after 30, the rate went up. Probably, thinks McFarland, the oldsters suffer from overconfidence...
Coach Harper still likes the scrappy, alert game of play maker and team captain Bill Hickey. "Murphy is probably the best all around player, a good shot and good defensive man, but you have to remember he's had the most experience and the other boys may still catch up with him," Harper said. Murphy played with a state high school championship team in Iowa...
Coach Lloyd Harpor's freshman basketball team, because it was faster, scrappier, better under the boards, and generally more alert, beat Tufts 58-33 last night in the Indoor Ahtletic Building...